Test 12 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

Why would a seagull follow a tractor far from the sea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: seagull · What happens: follow · To what, where: tractor

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 follow	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 follow	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seagull	det
4	seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	nsubj
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tractor	det
7	tractor	tractor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 follow	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 far	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 follow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	would	a seagull	a tractor				far property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tractor=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

Seagulls nest on tractors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seagulls	seagull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nest	nsubj
2	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tractors	case
4	tractors	tractor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	present	Seagulls			tractors			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Ploughing turns up worms and grubs to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 turns	compound:prt
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grubs	cc
6	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worms	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 worms	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	Ploughing	worms and grubs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location worm=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Ploughing not said here	worms and grubs not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is lost and is following the noise of the engine home

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 following	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 following	aux
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lost	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 noise	det
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 following	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 engine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 engine	det
11	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noise	nmod
12	home	home	ADV	_	6 following	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	follow	present · progressive		the noise of the engine	home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme
3	noise		the engine			nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Tractors carry fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tractors	tractor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Tractors	fish					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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