Test 7 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…

«a condor ate a dead deer and got sick, how» What is the most likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condor, likely reason · What happens: eat, get, be · To what, where: dead deer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	_	4 ate	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 condor	det
3	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deer	amod
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 »	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 »	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 ate	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reason	amod
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	a condor	a dead deer		tree rules
2	get in a quote	past	a condor not said here		sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	the likely reason			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

Condors cannot eat meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	Condors	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 2

The deer was too big and got stuck halfway down its throat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 big	conj
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 throat	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 throat	nmod:poss
12	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the deer					big property	tree rules
2	get	past	the deer not said here			deer's throat		halfway, stuck property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme down throat=Destination

Option 3

It ate too fast

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	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It					fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lead from a hunter's bullet in the deer poisoned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poisoned	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 bullet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bullet	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 hunter	case
6	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lead	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 deer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bullet	nmod
10	poisoned	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poisoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past	Lead from a hunter's bullet in the deer	deer					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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