Test 4 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls
You see a young bald eagle that is brown all over. Why no white head?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, that · What happens: see, be · To what, where: young bald eagle
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You see a young bald eagle that is brown all over.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 5 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brown | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brown | cop |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 over | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 brown | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | a young bald eagle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | brown, over 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.
Sentence 2: Why no white head?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 head | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 head | amod |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It is ill and losing colour
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 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ill | cop |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 losing | cc |
| 5 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ill | conj |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 losing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | colour | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality |
Option 2
It has rolled in mud
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 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | aux |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present · perfect · passive | It | mud | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in mud=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Young bald eagles get the white head at about five years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagles | amod |
| 2 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagles | amod |
| 3 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 five | advmod |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Young bald eagles | the white head | year | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
Option 4
It is a different kind of eagle that lives in the mountains
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 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eagle | case |
| 7 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a different kind | of eagle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | a different kind | the mountains | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
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