Test 9 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

Why would you keep laying ducks in their house until mid-morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: keep, lay · To what, where: laying ducks, house

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ducks	amod
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
10	until	until	ADP	_	11 mid-morning	case
11	mid-morning	mid-morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	you	laying ducks		ducks's house	until mid-morning		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent duck=Theme in house=Location
2	lay	gerund							vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Ducks sleep until noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	4 noon	case
4	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Ducks				noon		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They lay early in the morning, so the eggs end up in the house, not lost in the field

The tree, 19 words

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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lay	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 end	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 end	nsubj
11	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 end	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 lost	advmod
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lay	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 field	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	They		morning	early property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the eggs			in the house result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in house=Result
3	not lose	participle	They not said here	the field			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in field=Eventuality

Option 3

The eggs hatch if laid outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatch	nsubj
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 laid	mark
5	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hatch	advcl
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 laid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	the eggs						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	lay a condition, not said to happen	participle	the eggs not said here					outside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ducks are afraid of the morning sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	compound
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ducks					of the morning sun; afraid property	tree rules

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