Test 11 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…

«why's the wild one only lay a few eggs, lazy?» Why does the red junglefowl lay far fewer eggs than a farm hen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wild one, red junglefowl · What happens: be, lie, lay · To what, where: wild one, few eggs, fewer eggs

This is test 11 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: «why's the wild one only lay a few eggs, lazy?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 one	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eggs	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eggs	amod
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lazy	punct
13	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lay	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the wild one					tree rules
2	lie in a quote	past	the wild one	a few eggs					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=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: Why does the red junglefowl lay far fewer eggs than a farm hen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lay	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 junglefowl	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 junglefowl	amod
5	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fewer	advmod
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 hen	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hen	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hen	compound
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · do-support	the red junglefowl	fewer eggs				than a farm hen	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

The options

Option 1

Wild birds lay eggs only once in their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 once	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lay	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lives	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lives	nmod:poss
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Wild birds	eggs		birds's lives		once property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in life=Destination

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

Farmers bred hens for centuries, always keeping the best layers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bred	nsubj
2	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bred	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 centuries	case
5	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bred	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeping	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 keeping	advmod
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bred	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 layers	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 layers	amod
11	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past	Farmers	hens			century		tree rules
2	keep	gerund	Farmers not said here	the best layers				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme

Option 3

Wild birds are too lazy to lay and would rather spend the day looking for food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lazy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 lazy	advmod
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lay	mark
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lazy	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spend	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 spend	aux
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 spend	advmod
11	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spend	obj
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spend	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild birds		lazy property	tree rules
2	lay	to-infinitive	Wild birds not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spend	would	Wild birds not said here	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	Wild birds not said here		for food	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 4

Junglefowl eggs are ten times bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Junglefowl	Junglefowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eggs	compound
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	obl:unmarked
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

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