Test 7 · Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, hudd…

«why the hell is that bird sat on a buffalo, piss off bird» What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hell, bird · What happens: be, sit, piss off, do · To what, where: bird, buffalo

This is test 7 of lesson 241 «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bird	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hell	det
4	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 buffalo	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 buffalo	det
11	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 piss	punct
13	piss	piss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sat	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 piss	compound:prt
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piss	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 doing	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the hell	that bird		tree rules
2	sit in a quote	past	that bird		a buffalo	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on buffalo=Location
3	piss off in a quote	infinitive	that bird not said here	bird		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	do	present · progressive	hell			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Eating ticks and flies, and sometimes drinking blood from wounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eating	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 flies	cc
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ticks	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drinking	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drinking	cc
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 drinking	advmod
8	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Eating	conj
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinking	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 wounds	case
11	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		ticks and flies					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient
2	drink	gerund		blood		wounds		sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 2

Laying its eggs safely in the thick warm fur along the buffalo's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eggs	nmod:poss
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laying	obj
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	1 Laying	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 fur	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fur	det
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fur	amod
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fur	amod
9	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl
10	along	along	ADP	_	14 back	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 buffalo	det
12	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 buffalo	case
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund		its eggs		the thick warm fur		along the buffalo's back; safely property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in fur=Destination

Option 3

Waiting for the buffalo to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 buffalo	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buffalo	det
4	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 die	mark
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waiting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund						for the buffalo	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Steering the buffalo like a rider on a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steering	steer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Steering	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 rider	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rider	det
6	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Steering	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Steering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	gerund		the buffalo				like a rider; on a horse	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme on horse=Destination

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