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Test 6 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

A crow keeps cawing at one man in the park every day. What is the likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow, likely reason · What happens: keep, caw, be

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: A crow keeps cawing at one man in the park every day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cawing	caw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 man	nummod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cawing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 park	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 park	det
10	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cawing	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a crow						tree rules
2	caw	gerund	a crow not said here				day	at one man in the park	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at man=Stimulus

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: What is the likely reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the likely reason						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Crows remember a face for years, and he once bothered it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 face	det
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bothered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bothered	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bothered	nsubj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 bothered	advmod
11	bothered	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bothered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Crows	a face			year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	bother	past	he	face				once property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2

The crow likes his hat colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 colour	nmod:poss
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	compound
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the crow	crow's hat colour					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

Option 3

Crows cannot recognise people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recognise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recognise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 recognise	advmod
4	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recognise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognise	can	Crows	people					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 4

Crows caw at every single person in the park in the same way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caw	nsubj
2	caw	caw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 person	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caw	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caw	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	caw	present	Crows			the park		at every single person; in the same way	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at person=Stimulus

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