Test 1 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…

«shoebill's a scary killer bird, it'd attack you on sight» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shoebill, scary killer bird · What happens: be, attack · To what, where: scary killer bird, you, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
2	shoebill	shoebill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
6	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	compound
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attack	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 attack	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 attack	aux
11	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 attack	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 sight	case
14	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attack	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 attack	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 attack	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 attack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	shoebill	a scary killer bird			tree rules
2	attack in a quote	would	a scary killer bird	you	sight		tree rules
3	is	present				right property	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.

The options

Option 1

No, because it is too weak to move at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 weak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weak	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 weak	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 weak	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weak	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 weak	advmod
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 weak	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					weak property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive				all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is the most dangerous bird in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 dangerous	advmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the dangerous bird		the world			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a shy bird that keeps away from people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bird	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 keeps	nsubj
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	acl:relcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 keeps	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a shy bird					tree rules
2	keep away	present	a shy bird					from people; away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from people=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, it hunts people who walk into its swamps at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hunts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunts	nsubj
4	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunts	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 swamps	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 swamps	nmod:poss
10	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	it	people					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	walk	present	people				night	into its swamps result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into swamp=Result

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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