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Test 6 · Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other ne…

It is a dry spring with no puddles anywhere. Which bird will find it hardest to build?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, bird · What happens: be, find, build · To what, where: dry spring, it

This is test 6 of lesson 243 «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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

Sentence 1: It is a dry spring with no puddles anywhere.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spring	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spring	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 puddles	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 puddles	det
8	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spring	nmod
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 puddles	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a dry spring				with no puddles	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Which bird will find it hardest to build?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 find	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 build	mark
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hardest	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	which bird	it					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme hard=Attribute
2	build	to-infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The house martin, which needs mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 martin	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 martin	compound
3	martin	martin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the house martin	mud					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mud=Theme

Option 2

The bowerbird, which uses sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bowerbird	det
2	bowerbird	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 uses	nsubj
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the bowerbird	sticks					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The woodpecker, which drills wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodpecker	det
2	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drills	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drills	nsubj
5	drills	drill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 woodpecker	acl:relcl
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drill	present	the woodpecker	wood					vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 4

The weaver bird, which uses grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	compound
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 uses	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 uses	nsubj
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bird	acl:relcl
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	the weaver bird	grass					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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