Test 6 · ★★ · Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostr…

«found a baby bird on the path and i touched it, now its mum'll dump it, i'm so stupid» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, mum · What happens: find, touch, dump, be · To what, where: baby bird, path, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 295 «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bird	compound
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 touched	cc
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dump	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 dump	advmod
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dump	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 dump	aux
18	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 touched	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dump	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stupid	punct
21	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 stupid	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stupid	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 stupid	advmod
24	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dump	parataxis
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 stupid	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 true	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stupid	parataxis
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a baby bird	the path			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	touch in a quote	past	i	bird				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	dump in a quote	future	bird's mum	bird		now		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	i				stupid property	tree rules
5	is	present					true 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

It must be washed in soap 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	4 washed	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 washed	aux:pass
4	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 soap	case
6	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 washed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	must · passive		It		soap			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Yes, the mother will smell you and never come back to that chick again

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 smell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smell	aux
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 smell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 smell	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 chick	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 chick	det
14	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	10 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	future	the mother	you					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	not come back	infinitive	the mother not said here				again	to that chick	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chick=Initial_Location

Option 3

You must now raise it in your bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 raise	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 raise	advmod
4	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raise	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bedroom	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bedroom	nmod:poss
8	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	must	You	it		your bedroom	now		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bedroom=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most birds will not reject it because of your smell, but leave it alone now

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reject	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reject	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 reject	advmod
5	reject	reject	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reject	obj
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 smell	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 smell	nmod:poss
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reject	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leave	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 leave	cc
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reject	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not reject	future	Most birds	it		because your smell	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	Most birds not said here	smell	now	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	smell		your				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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