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Test 8 · Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics

A young bird eats an orange and black butterfly and is sick. What will it probably do next time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: young bird, bird · What happens: eat, be, do · To what, where: orange

This is test 8 of lesson 247 «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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: A young bird eats an orange and black butterfly and is sick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orange	det
6	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 butterfly	cc
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 butterfly	amod
9	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 orange	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sick	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eats	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a young bird	a orange and black butterfly					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Patient
2	is	present	a young bird not said here					sick property	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: What will it probably do next time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	bird				time	probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Eat two at once to get it over with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Eat	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Eat	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 get	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	two					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient
2	get over	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Avoid orange and black butterflies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 butterflies	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 black	cc
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 orange	conj
5	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	orange butterflies					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent butterfly=Location

Option 3

Only eat them at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 eat	advmod
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	them = they			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Feed them to its chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feed	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 chicks	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chicks	nmod:poss
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here		them = they			to its chicks	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to chick=Recipient

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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