Test 3 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…

«red kites are huge, they'll grab my dog» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: red kites, kites · What happens: be, grab · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 282 «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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	_	5 huge	punct
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kites	amod
3	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 huge	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grab	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grab	aux
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 huge	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dog	nmod:poss
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grab	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 grab	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grab	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 huge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	red kites		huge property	tree rules
2	grab in a quote	future	kites = kite	my dog		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 · ✓ the right answer

Red kites eat mostly dead animals and are no danger to people or dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kites	amod
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 danger	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 danger	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 danger	det
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 danger	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 dogs	cc
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Red kites	dead animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	is a	present	Red kites not said here	no danger				to people or dogs	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they swoop down and carry off small dogs and cats every single day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swoop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swoop	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swoop	nsubj
4	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 swoop	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carry	cc
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swoop	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 carry	compound:prt
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dogs	amod
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swoop	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cats	cc
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dogs	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swoop	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	present	they	small dogs and cats			day	down property	tree rules
2	carry off	infinitive	they not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, they eat cats too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod

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

Option 4

No, red kites are only toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kites	amod
4	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 toys	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 toys	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 toys	advmod
7	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	red kites	toys					tree rules

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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