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Test 3 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago…

In a cartoon ducks gobble a whole loaf of bread and grow fat and happy. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon ducks · What happens: gobble, grow, be · To what, where: whole loaf, fat

This is test 3 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon ducks gobble a whole loaf of bread and grow fat and happy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 ducks	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ducks	compound
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gobble	nsubj
5	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 loaf	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loaf	amod
8	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gobble	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bread	case
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loaf	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grow	cc
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gobble	conj
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grow	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 happy	cc
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fat	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gobble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	present	a cartoon ducks	a whole loaf of bread					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme
2	grow	present	a cartoon ducks not said here	fat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Bread makes ducks grow fat, strong and able to fly further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 able	cc
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strong	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fly	mark
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bread	ducks					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	ducks not said here	fat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme
3	fly	to-infinitive	ducks not said here					far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Ducks cannot eat bread at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	Ducks	bread		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3

Bread is the perfect duck food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 food	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	compound
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bread	the perfect duck food					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bread fills them up without much goodness and dirties the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fills	nsubj
2	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fills	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 fills	compound:prt
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 goodness	case
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goodness	amod
7	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fills	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dirties	cc
9	dirties	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fills	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dirties	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	present	Bread	them = they				without much goodness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	dirty	present	Bread not said here	the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=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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