Test 8 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

What is the air pocket at the wide end of an egg for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: air pocket, wide end

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 pocket	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pocket	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pocket	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pocket	compound
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	amod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pocket	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 egg	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 egg	det
12	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	12 egg	case
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pocket	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the air pocket			at the wide end of a egg		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

Storing the chick's food and water for later, until it is ready to hatch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storing	store	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ready	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chick	det
3	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chick	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Storing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 later	case
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Storing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 ready	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ready	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hatch	mark
16	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	store	gerund		the chick's food and water		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	is	present	it		ready property	tree rules
3	hatch	to-infinitive				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, it is just empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 empty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 empty	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 empty	advmod
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					empty property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The chick's first breath before it breaks the shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chick	det
2	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breath	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 chick	case
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 breath	amod
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 breaks	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 breaks	nsubj
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breath	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shell	det
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	breath	the shell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Patient

Option 4

Keeping the egg from sinking in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 egg	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 sinking	mark
5	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keeping	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		the egg					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
2	sink	gerund				the nest			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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