Test 5 · Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying s…

«birds are eating them berries so they're fine for us, right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 255 «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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	_	4 eating	punct
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fine	csubj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 fine	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 right	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	18 right	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fine	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present · progressive	birds	them = they		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	birds = bird		for us; fine property	tree rules
3	is	present			right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, birds only eat poisonous berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 birds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 berries	amod
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	birds	poisonous berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

Option 2

Yes, if a bird eats it, it is safe for people to eat too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 eats	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safe	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 safe	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safe	cop
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 safe	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 safe	advcl
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	a bird	it		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	bird		for people; safe property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	bird not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, birds can eat some berries that are poisonous to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 berries	det
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 poisonous	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisonous	cop
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 berries	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	birds	some berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
2	is	present	some berries					to people; poisonous property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but only the red ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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