Test 5 · ★ · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…

What would happen if you walked up to a wild cassowary to pat it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, walk up, pat · To what, where: cassowary

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 walked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 walked	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 cassowary	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cassowary	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cassowary	amod
11	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pat	mark
13	pat	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walked	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pat	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk up a condition, not said to happen	past	you		to a wild cassowary result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cassowary=Result
3	pat	to-infinitive	you not said here	cassowary		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

It could attack with its dagger-like claws, so stay away

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	3 attack	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 attack	aux
3	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 claws	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 claws	nmod:poss
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dagger	punct
8	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 claws	amod
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attack	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 attack	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	could	It					with its like claws	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay away	infinitive						away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would come closer and sing to you like a blackbird

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	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sing	cc
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blackbird	det
11	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	would	It		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	infinitive				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	present	you	a blackbird		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blackbird=Theme

Option 3

It would flap hard and fly off over the trees at once

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	3 flap	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flap	aux
3	flap	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 flap	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flap	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fly	compound:prt
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	would	It					hard property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly off	infinitive				the trees			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location

Option 4

It would kneel down and let you climb on and ride it

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	3 kneel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kneel	aux
3	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 kneel	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kneel	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 climb	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ride	cc
11	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kneel	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kneel down	would	It		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive		you		tree rules
3	climb on	infinitive	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	infinitive		it		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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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