Test 3 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

my sister says the white bit of bird poo is calcium from eggshells. is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, white bit · What happens: say, be · To what, where: calcium, eggshells, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 calcium	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 poo	case
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poo	compound
9	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 calcium	cop
11	calcium	calcium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 eggshells	case
13	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 calcium	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 it	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the white bit of bird poo	calcium	eggshells	tree rules
3	is a	present		bit		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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 milk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 milk	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 milk	cop
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, birds poo out spare eggshell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 poo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poo	nsubj
4	poo	poo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 poo	compound:prt
6	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eggshell	amod
7	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poo	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poo out	present	birds	spare eggshell					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is uric acid, the bird's version of wee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 acid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 acid	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 acid	cop
5	uric	uric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acid	amod
6	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 version	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 version	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 bird	case
11	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acid	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wee	case
13	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 version	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	uric acid and the bird's version of wee					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but only hens that lay eggs every day have it in their poo

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 hens	advmod
5	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hens	acl:relcl
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl:unmarked
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 poo	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 poo	nmod:poss
15	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	hens	eggs			day		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	have	present	hens	it		hens's poo			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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