Test 1 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

Your little brother finds a chick halfway out of its egg and wants to pull the shell off. What should you say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, you · What happens: find, want, pull off, say · To what, where: chick, egg, shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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: Your little brother finds a chick halfway out of its egg and wants to pull the shell off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finds	nsubj
4	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chick	det
6	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finds	obj
7	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	4 finds	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 egg	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 egg	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 egg	nmod:poss
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finds	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finds	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pull	mark
15	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shell	det
17	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pull	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	15 pull	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	Your little brother	a chick	chick's egg	halfway property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Topic
2	want	present	Your little brother not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pull off not said to happen	to-infinitive	Your little brother not said here	the shell			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Eventuality

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 should you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Yes, help it, chicks cannot get out alone and will die without you

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	conj
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 die	cc
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
14	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 help	conj
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	it		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	not get out	can	chicks		alone, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	future	you not said here		without you	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave it, the chick is still using up its yolk and will do it itself

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 using	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chick	det
5	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 using	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 using	aux
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 using	advmod
8	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leave	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 using	compound:prt
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 yolk	nmod:poss
11	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 using	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	use up	present · progressive	the chick	chick's yolk	still	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yolk=Patient
3	do	future	you not said here	yolk		tree rules

Option 3

Shake the egg so it comes out faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 egg	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shake	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 comes	compound:prt
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	the egg					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
2	come out	present	egg					fast property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Pour warm water on the shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 shell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shell	det
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	warm water		the shell			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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