Test 3 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls

my brother reckons bald eagles r bald like grandad. are they?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, eagles · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eagles	amod
5	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 r	nsubj
6	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 r	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 grandad	case
9	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bald	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 are	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	does	present	eagles = eagle						vn exist-47.1 «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

Only the females are bald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 females	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 females	det
3	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bald	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bald	cop
5	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they have white feathers on the head; balde meant white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feathers	amod
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	balde	balde	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meant	nsubj
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meant	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	white feathers		the head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	mean	past	balde					white property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, their heads have bare skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	their heads	bare skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they lose all their feathers when they get old, like grandad's hair

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 feathers	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 get	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	advcl
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hair	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 hair	case
14	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hair	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 grandad	case
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	they	their feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	get	present	feathers = feather					like grandad's hair; old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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