Test 9 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

How could a new house be built to welcome sparrows and swifts?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: build, welcome · To what, where: new house, sparrows

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 built	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 welcome	mark
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 built	advcl
10	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 welcome	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swifts	cc
12	swifts	swift	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sparrows	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	could · passive		a new house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	welcome	to-infinitive		sparrows and swifts					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=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.

The options

Option 1

With no gaps anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 gaps	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 gaps	det
3	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 gaps	advmod

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

Option 2

With sharp spikes on every ledge and windowsill to keep them safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 spikes	case
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spikes	amod
3	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ledge	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ledge	det
6	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spikes	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 windowsill	cc
8	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ledge	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spikes	acl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		ledge				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

With small gaps or special nest bricks under the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 gaps	case
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gaps	amod
3	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 bricks	cc
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bricks	amod
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bricks	compound
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gaps	conj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaps	nmod

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

Option 4

With glass walls only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 walls	case
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walls	compound
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 walls	advmod

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

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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