Test 10 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

How do young cuckoos find their way to Africa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young cuckoos · What happens: find · To what, where: way, Africa

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cuckoos	amod
4	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	young cuckoos	cuckoos's way	Africa				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Alone, with no parents to show them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	5 parents	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 parents	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 parents	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		parents = parent					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

They hitch a ride on the backs of big geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hitch	nsubj
2	hitch	hitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ride	det
4	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hitch	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 backs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 backs	det
7	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hitch	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 geese	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 geese	amod
10	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 backs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	present	They	a ride				on the backs of big geese	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ride=Patient on back=Co-Patient

Option 3

The reed warblers fly with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warblers	det
2	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warblers	compound
3	warblers	warbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the reed warblers					with them = they	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Their real parents lead them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parents	amod
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lead	nsubj
4	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lead	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	Their real parents	them = they					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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