Test 5 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

«there's a dead gull on the beach, imma poke it with a stick and bring it home» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dead gull · What happens: be, poke, bring · To what, where: imma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 poke	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gull	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gull	amod
6	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poke	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gull	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 imma	punct
11	imma	imma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beach	conj
12	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 poke	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poke	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bring	cc
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 poke	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	18 bring	advmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bring	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 poke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a dead gull on the beach and imma not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	poke in a quote	present	a dead gull on the beach and imma	imma		with a stick	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument
3	bring in a quote	infinitive	a dead gull on the beach and imma not said here	imma		home property	tree rules
4	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

Fine, dead birds carry no germs at all once they are cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 germs	det
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 carry	obl
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 cold	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cold	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cold	cop
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Fine dead birds	no germs		all			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	birds = bird					cold property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, leave it and tell an adult; bird flu can spread from sick or dead birds

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 leave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flu	compound
11	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	aux
13	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	18 birds	case
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 birds	amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 dead	cc
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sick	conj
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	spread	can	bird flu			from sick birds	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fine, if you carry it in your hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 carry	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carry	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	you	it		your hands			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location

Option 4

Fine, if you wash it in the sea first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wash	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wash	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wash	nsubj
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wash	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wash	obl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	you	it		the sea		first property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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