Test 6 · Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles…

«why'd a hunter bother diving, just fly straight at the hare» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bother diving · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 fly	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 diving	det
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bother	compound
6	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diving	compound
7	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answer	parataxis
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 fly	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 hare	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hare	det
14	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	would	a bother diving					at the hare; straight property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hare=Location
2	be speech: assert	present		the best answer					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

Diving helps keep the eagle nice and warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diving	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eagle	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warm	cc
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dive	gerund			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	help	present			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	the eagle	nice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Diving builds speed and surprise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 surprise	cc
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Diving	speed and surprise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speed=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Eagles are scared of hares on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hares	case
5	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hares	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Eagles					of hares on the ground; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Flying straight is faster than diving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 faster	csubj
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Flying	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 diving	mark
6	diving	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 faster	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund		straight property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Flying	fast property	tree rules
3	dive	gerund	Flying not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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