Test 5 · Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles…
In The Lord of the Rings giant eagles carry people over mountains. What can a real big eagle usually carry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real big eagle · What happens: carry · To what, where: people, mountains
This is test 5 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 The Lord of the Rings giant eagles carry people over mountains.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Lord | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rings | det |
| 6 | Rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obl |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eagles | amod |
| 8 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Rings | nmod |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | people | mountains | in the Lord; of the Rings giant eagles | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent people=Theme of ring=Initial_Location |
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 can a real big eagle usually carry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 carry | advmod |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a real big eagle not said here | usually property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Only a few kilograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 kilograms | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kilograms | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kilograms | amod |
| 4 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A small horse or a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 cow | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A car, if it is light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 light | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 light | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 light | cop |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 car | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | light | tree rules |
Option 4
A grown person easily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 person | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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