Test 1 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

«look, that flamingo chick's grey, it must be ill» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, grey · What happens: look, be · To what, where: grey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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	_	2 look	punct
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grey	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 chick	det
5	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chick	compound
6	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grey	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 chick	case
8	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ill	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ill	cop
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here	that flamingo chick's grey		tree rules
2	is in a quote	must	grey		ill property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chicks hatch grey and only turn pink after years of eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	nsubj
2	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hatch	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turn	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hatch	conj
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 eating	case
11	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	Chicks					grey property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	turn	infinitive	Chicks not said here				year	pink property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, all grey flamingos are sick and need a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flamingos	det
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flamingos	amod
5	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sick	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	cop
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vet	det
11	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all grey flamingos					sick property	tree rules
2	need	present	all grey flamingos not said here	a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 3

It got dirty and needs a bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 needs	cc
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bath	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					dirty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	need	present		a bath					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bath=Theme

Option 4

It is a different bird, because flamingos are always born pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bird	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 born	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 born	mark
8	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 born	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 born	aux:pass
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 born	advmod
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bird	conj
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 born	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a different bird					tree rules
2	bear	present · passive		flamingos				always, pink property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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