Test 2 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pale adult flamingo, something · What happens: be · To what, where: sign

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sign	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sign	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flamingo	det
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flamingo	amod
5	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flamingo	amod
6	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sign	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 zoo	det
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flamingo	nmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sign	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wrong	mark
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 wrong	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sign	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	a pale adult flamingo in a zoo	a sign					tree rules
2	is	present	something	a sign not said here				wrong 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

It has been in the sun too long

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	6 sun	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sun	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sun	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sun	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	It			the sun		long property	tree rules

Option 2

It is about to turn into a swan, like the ugly duckling

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	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 turn	mark
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 swan	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 swan	det
8	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 duckling	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 duckling	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 duckling	det
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 duckling	amod
13	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive				a swan		like the ugly duckling	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swan=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its food is probably missing the pink pigment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 food	nmod:poss
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 missing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 missing	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 missing	advmod
5	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pigment	det
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pigment	amod
8	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present · progressive	Its food	the pink pigment				probably property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigment=Stimulus

Option 4

It is getting too old to fly

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	3 getting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	It					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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