Test 1 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…

In a cartoon, a hen lays an egg and a fluffy chick pops out a second later. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hen, fluffy chick · What happens: lay, pop out, be · To what, where: egg, cartoon

This is test 1 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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, a hen lays an egg and a fluffy chick pops out a second later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lays	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lays	nsubj
7	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lays	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pops	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chick	det
12	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chick	amod
13	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pops	nsubj
14	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lays	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 pops	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 second	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 later	obl:unmarked
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 pops	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a hen	a egg		a cartoon			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	pop out	present	a fluffy chick					late property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Chicks hatch only from brown eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	nsubj
2	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 eggs	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eggs	amod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	Chicks					from brown eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A fertilised egg needs about 21 days of warmth before it hatches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	fertilised	fertilis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 egg	amod
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 21	advmod
6	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 warmth	case
9	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 days	nmod
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 hatches	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hatches	nsubj
12	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	fertilis	participle			tree rules
2	need	present	a fertilised egg	day	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	hatch	present	egg		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing is wrong, because chicks always hatch at once as soon as the egg is laid

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hatch	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hatch	mark
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hatch	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hatch	advmod
8	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 hatch	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hatch	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 laid	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 egg	det
15	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 laid	aux:pass
17	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 soon	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing		wrong property	tree rules
2	hatch	present	chicks		always, soon property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	lay	present · passive		the egg		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 4

Chicks hatch after 21 hours in the fridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	nsubj
2	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 hours	case
4	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fridge	det
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	Chicks			the fridge	hour		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=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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