Test 3 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

«there's a nest in the hedge, dad wants it gone so he can trim, sod the birds» What is right in Britain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nest, dad, birds · What happens: be, want, go, trim, sod · To what, where: hedge, nest, birds, Britain

This is test 3 of lesson 333 «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wants	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hedge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hedge	det
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wants	punct
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wants	nsubj
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	obj
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wants	xcomp
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 trim	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trim	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 trim	aux
17	trim	trim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sod	punct
19	sod	sod	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 wants	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sod	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 birds	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 right	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 right	cop
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 birds	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Britain	case
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 right	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a nest			the hedge; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Location
2	want in a quote	present	dad	nest				tree rules
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	participle	nest not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	trim in a quote	can	dad					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sod in a quote	infinitive			the birds			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Destination
6	is	present	the birds			Britain	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

Nests can be moved to another bush, and the birds will follow it there at once

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moved	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 moved	aux:pass
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bush	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bush	det
7	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 follow	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 follow	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 follow	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 follow	aux
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 moved	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 follow	obj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 follow	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	can · passive		Nests		another bush			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to bush=Trajectory
2	follow	future	the birds	bush		there			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Trajectory

Option 2

Birds rebuild in an hour, so it does not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rebuild	nsubj
2	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rebuild	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 matter	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 matter	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 matter	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 matter	advmod
11	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rebuild	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rebuild	present	Birds				hour		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not matter	present · do-support	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is against the law to disturb a nest in use; wait until the young have left

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 disturb	mark
7	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disturb	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 use	case
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disturb	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wait	punct
13	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 disturb	conj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 left	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 young	det
16	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 left	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			against the law	tree rules
2	disturb	to-infinitive		a nest	use		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer
3	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	present · perfect · passive		the young			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Trimming is fine if it is quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trimming	trimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 quick	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quick	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	cop
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Trimming					fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Trimming					quick property	tree rules

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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