Test 9 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…
A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest. Who did it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: push out, do · To what, where: eggs, own nest, nest
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 warbler | det |
| 2 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warbler | compound |
| 3 | warbler | warbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 warbler | case |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pushed | aux:pass |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nest | amod |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push out | present · passive | a reed warbler's eggs | warbler's own nest | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme nest=Destination |
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: Who did it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | nest | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A woodpecker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woodpecker | det |
| 2 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The newly hatched cuckoo chick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chick | det |
| 2 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 3 hatched | advmod |
| 3 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chick | amod |
| 4 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chick | compound |
| 5 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | participle | newly property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
The reed warbler itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warbler | det |
| 2 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warbler | compound |
| 3 | warbler | warbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 warbler | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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