Test 4 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

Would a goose that flies thousands of kilometres have dark or pale breast meat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: goose · What happens: fly, have · To what, where: thousands, dark breast meat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goose	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goose	acl:relcl
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flies	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meat	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 pale	cc
12	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dark	conj
13	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meat	compound
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a goose	thousands of kilometres					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme
2	have	would	a goose	dark breast meat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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.

The options

Option 1

Clear like jelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clear	clear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 jelly	case
3	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	imperative	you not said here					like jelly	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

Option 2

Bright green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dark, because its flying muscles work for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 work	mark
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 muscles	nmod:poss
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 muscles	amod
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 work	nsubj
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dark	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	present	its flying muscles				time		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pale, like a chicken's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chicken	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 chicken	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chicken	det
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	nmod
6	's	's	PART	_	5 chicken	case

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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