Test 8 · ★★ · Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures

Why is a motorway verge a good place for a kestrel to hunt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: motorway verge · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: good place

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 324 «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 place	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 verge	det
4	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verge	compound
5	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 kestrel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kestrel	det
11	kestrel	kestrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hunt	mark
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 place	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a motorway verge	a good place				for a kestrel	tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive							vn hunt-35.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Kestrels like the noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kestrels	kestrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 noise	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kestrels	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The verge is warmer than the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 verge	det
2	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warmer	cop
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the verge					than the sky; warm property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The long grass is full of voles and mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grass	amod
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 voles	case
7	voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mice	cc
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 voles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the long grass					of voles and mice; full property	tree rules

Option 4

Cars give kestrels free food every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kestrels	kestrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Cars	kestrels			day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kestrel=Recipient food=Theme

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