Test 6 · Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lo…

What would happen if a lorikeet only had hard seeds to eat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lorikeet · What happens: happen, have, eat · To what, where: hard seeds

This is test 6 of lesson 303 «Parrots of the world: macaws, cockatoos, African greys, lorikeets and the cheeky kea» 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	_	8 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lorikeet	det
6	lorikeet	lorikeet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seeds	amod
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seeds	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a lorikeet	hard seeds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	a lorikeet not said here	hard seeds not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle, because its tongue is built for nectar and pollen

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 built	mark
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 struggle	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 nectar	case
11	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pollen	cc
13	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nectar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	It						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	present · passive		its tongue				for nectar and pollen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for nectar=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would crack them easily like a macaw

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 crack	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crack	obj
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 crack	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 macaw	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 macaw	det
8	macaw	macaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	would	It	them = they				like a macaw; easily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3

Its tongue would slowly harden and turn into a second beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harden	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harden	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 harden	advmod
5	harden	harden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harden	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 beak	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beak	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 beak	amod
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harden	would	Its tongue					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	turn	infinitive	Its tongue not said here			a second beak			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into beak=Trajectory

Option 4

It would start eating clay only

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 clay	amod
5	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It	eating clay					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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