Test 6 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

Why would a poison on fields harm a falcon that never ate a plant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poison, falcon · What happens: harm, not eat · To what, where: falcon, plant

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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	7 harm	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 harm	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poison	det
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harm	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 fields	case
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poison	nmod
7	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 falcon	det
9	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harm	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ate	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 ate	advmod
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 falcon	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plant	det
14	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 harm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	would	a poison on fields	a falcon					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus falcon=Experiencer
2	not eat	past	a falcon	a plant					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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

Falcons eat grass and seeds in secret when nobody is watching them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falcons	falcon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 seeds	cc
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grass	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 secret	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 watching	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 watching	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 watching	aux
11	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 eat	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Falcons	grass and seeds		secret			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	watch	present · progressive	nobody	grass					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Falcons drink from farm ponds only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falcons	falcon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ponds	case
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ponds	compound
5	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 drink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Falcons			farm ponds			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from pond=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It ate birds that ate the poisoned seeds, so the poison built up in it

The tree, 15 words

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seeds	det
7	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 seeds	amod
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 built	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 built	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poison	det
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 built	nsubj
13	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ate	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 built	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past	It	birds		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	eat	past	birds	the poisoned seeds		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
3	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	build up	participle	the poison		it	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The poison blew into its nest as dust only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poison	det
2	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	3 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the poison			poison's nest		as dust	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into nest=Product

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