Test 4 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

Why might a bird leave its nest if people keep coming too close?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird, people · What happens: leave, keep, come · To what, where: nest

This is test 4 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 leave	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nest	nmod:poss
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 keep	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	advcl
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	xcomp
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 close	advmod
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coming	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	might	a bird	bird's nest		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	people			tree rules
3	come	gerund	people not said here		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

People's shadows freeze the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shadows	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 People	case
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freeze	nsubj
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freeze	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	People's shadows	the eggs					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient egg=Result
2	shadow		People						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Birds only nest where no one lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 nest	advmod
3	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 lives	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nest	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	present	Birds						tree rules
2	live	present	no one						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may think the nest is not safe from danger

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	3 think	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 safe	advmod
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	may	It						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	the nest			danger		safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Birds cannot stand the smell of grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stand	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smell	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 grass	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	Birds	the smell of grass					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	smell		grass						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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