Test 7 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, birds · What happens: shut, be · To what, where: it

This is test 7 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	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shut	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 birds	punct
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dead	nsubj
5	aint	aint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dinosaurs	compound
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 birds	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dinosaurs	punct
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 birds	conj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 dead	advmod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shut	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 right	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shut	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut	imperative	you not said here	it		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	birds and aint dinosaurs and dinosaurs		all, dead property	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Birds evolved from dinosaurs, so scientists call them living dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evolved	nsubj
2	evolved	evolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 dinosaurs	case
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evolved	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 evolved	parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 call	xcomp
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 living	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	evolve	past	Birds		from dinosaurs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from dinosaur=Patient
2	call	present	scientists	Birds = bird		tree rules
3	live	gerund	scientists not said here	dinosaurs		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location

Option 2

Birds are a kind of mammal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mammal	case
6	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Birds	a kind				of mammal	tree rules

Option 3

Birds and dinosaurs are not related at all, they just look a bit alike

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 related	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dinosaurs	cc
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Birds	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 related	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 related	advmod
6	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 related	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 related	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 alike	obl:unmarked
15	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Birds and dinosaurs			all		related property	tree rules
2	look	present	Birds = bird					alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Dinosaurs evolved from birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evolved	nsubj
2	evolved	evolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evolve	past	Dinosaurs					from birds	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from bird=Patient

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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