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Test 12 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

Crap, the phone rang again, no wait, it's the starling on the roof. Is that possible?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: phone, that · What happens: ring, be · To what, where: Crap, starling, roof

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Crap, the phone rang again, no wait, it's the starling on the roof.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Crap	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 rang	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 wait	det
9	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 starling	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 starling	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 starling	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 starling	det
14	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 starling	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the phone	Crap			again	no wait obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	phone	the starling		the roof			tree rules

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: Is that possible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 possible	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 possible	nsubj
3	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 possible	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only parrots can do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 parrots	advmod
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	parrots	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

Yes, starlings copy ringtones and alarms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copy	nsubj
4	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ringtones	ringtone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copy	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 alarms	cc
7	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ringtones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	starlings	ringtones and alarms					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringtone=Theme

Option 3

No, birds cannot copy machine sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copy	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 copy	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 copy	advmod
6	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	compound
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not copy	can	birds	machine sounds					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 4

Only in Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Australia	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Australia	case
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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