Test 11 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

«no point leaving water out for birds, they just get it from puddles» What is right on a hot, dry day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: point, birds · What happens: leave out, get, be · To what, where: water, puddles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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	_	4 leaving	punct
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaving	nsubj
4	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaving	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 leaving	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaving	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leaving	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 puddles	case
15	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 leaving	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaving	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	25 day	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
22	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hot	punct
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 right	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leaving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out in a quote	gerund	no point	water			for birds	tree rules
2	get in a quote	present	birds = bird	water	puddles			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from puddle=Source
3	is	present				day	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 · ✓ the right answer

Fresh water helps birds drink and bathe when puddles dry up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helps	obj
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bathe	cc
7	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drink	conj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 dry	mark
9	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dry	nsubj
10	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bathe	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	Fresh water	birds	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	drink	infinitive	birds not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bathe	infinitive	birds not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dry up	present	puddles		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Water makes birds too heavy to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Water	birds				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bird=Product
2	fly	to-infinitive	Water not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Birds never drink water at all, they get all they need from their food

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 drink	advmod
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 drink	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	conj
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 food	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 food	nmod:poss
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not drink	present	Birds	water	all		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	get	present	Birds = bird		Birds's food		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	need	present	Birds = bird			all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Birds only bathe in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bathe	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bathe	advmod
3	bathe	bathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bathe	present	Birds					in the sea	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sea=Theme

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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