Test 7 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

«bustard's just a big chicken, can't fly» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bustard · What happens: be, not fly · To what, where: big chicken

This is test 7 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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	_	7 chicken	punct
2	bustard	bustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chicken	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chicken	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 chicken	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chicken	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chicken	amod
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fly	advmod
11	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 chicken	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fly	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chicken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	bustard	a big chicken		tree rules
2	not fly in a quote	can				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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

It only flies at night

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 flies	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 flies	advmod
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	It				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can fly, and it is one of the heaviest birds that can

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 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fly	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 birds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
11	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 can	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 birds	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	It						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	one				of the heaviest birds	tree rules

Option 3

It cannot fly at all, it only runs very fast like an ostrich

The tree, 14 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	4 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 runs	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 runs	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 runs	advmod
10	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 runs	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 ostrich	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ostrich	det
15	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	It			all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	run	present	it					like a ostrich; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is a kind of turkey

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 turkey	case
6	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of turkey	tree rules

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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