Test 5 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

«it's a pelican, it can just take off like a sparrow» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, take off · To what, where: pelican

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 374 «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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	_	5 pelican	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pelican	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pelican	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pelican	det
5	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pelican	parataxis
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 sparrow	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sparrow	det
14	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 take	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pelican	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a pelican		tree rules
2	take off in a quote	can	it		like a sparrow	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
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

Pelicans jump straight up from the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jump	nsubj
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 jump	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	present	Pelicans			the water			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from water=Trajectory

Option 2

Pelicans cannot fly at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	Pelicans			all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at all=Location

Option 3

Pelicans can only take off from the tops of tall trees by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 tops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tops	det
8	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tops	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	can	Pelicans			the tops of tall trees		by the river	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from top=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A heavy pelican runs along the water slapping its feet to take off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pelican	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pelican	amod
3	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obl
8	slapping	slap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 runs	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slapping	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slapping	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	present	a heavy pelican		the water	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along water=Trajectory
2	slap	gerund	a heavy pelican not said here	pelican's feet		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	take off	to-infinitive	a heavy pelican not said here			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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