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Test 7 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

In the game Angry Birds, birds are flung from a catapult to fly fast. Which real bird is the fastest animal on Earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fling, fly, be · To what, where: Angry Birds, game, fastest animal, Earth

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In the game Angry Birds, birds are flung from a catapult to fly fast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
4	Angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Birds	amod
5	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flung	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 birds	punct
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Birds	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flung	aux:pass
9	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 catapult	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 catapult	det
12	catapult	catapult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fly	mark
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 flung	advcl
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 fly	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	present · passive		Angry Birds and birds		the game		from a catapult	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in game=Destination
2	fly	to-infinitive						fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Which real bird is the fastest animal on Earth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 animal	nsubj
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the fastest animal		Earth			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The house sparrow on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sparrow	compound
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sparrow	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The starling in a murmuration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 starling	det
2	starling	starling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 murmuration	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 murmuration	det
5	murmuration	murmuration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starling	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The peregrine falcon in a hunting dive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 falcon	det
2	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	compound
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 dive	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dive	det
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dive	compound
7	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The swift taking off from the pavement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swift	det
2	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 swift	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 taking	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pavement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pavement	det
7	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	gerund	the swift not said here			the pavement			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from pavement=Initial_Location

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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