Test 4 · Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles…

In a film a bald eagle opens its beak and lets out a wild scream. What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bald eagle, truth · What happens: open, let out, be · To what, where: beak, film, wild scream

This is test 4 of lesson 323 «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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

Sentence 1: In a film a bald eagle opens its beak and lets out a wild scream.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opens	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
5	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eagle	amod
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opens	nsubj
7	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beak	nmod:poss
9	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opens	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lets	cc
11	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 opens	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 lets	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 scream	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scream	amod
15	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lets	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	a bald eagle	eagle's beak		a film			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme in film=Location
2	let out	present	a bald eagle not said here	a wild scream					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Bald eagles scream louder than any other bird, so the film is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eagles	amod
2	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scream	nsubj
3	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 scream	ccomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 bird	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bird	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 louder	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 right	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 film	det
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	Bald eagles						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the film					right property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Eagles cannot make any sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	Eagles	any sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sound is usually a red-tailed hawk; bald eagles chirp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hawk	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hawk	cop
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 hawk	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hawk	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tailed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hawk	amod
9	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 chirp	punct
11	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eagles	amod
12	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chirp	nsubj
13	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hawk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tail	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the sound	a tailed hawk	usually property	tree rules
3	chirp	present	bald eagles			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The sound is a real eagle in pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eagle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eagle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eagle	amod
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 pain	case
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eagle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the sound	a real eagle		pain			tree rules

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