Test 11 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

Besides an African spear, what other clue could prove where a stork spends winter?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork · What happens: prove, spend

This is test 11 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	4 spear	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spear	det
3	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spear	amod
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prove	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prove	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 prove	nsubj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clue	amod
8	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prove	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 prove	aux
10	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 spends	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stork	det
13	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spends	nsubj
14	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 prove	ccomp
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spends	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	could						besides a African spear	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	spend	present	a stork				winter		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The colour of its eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eggs	nmod:poss
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 colour	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A tracker or a ring found on the bird in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tracker	det
2	tracker	tracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 ring	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tracker	conj
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tracker	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Africa	case
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bird	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		a tracker or a ring not said here				on the bird in Africa	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Its feathers turning darker in the hot African sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feathers	nmod:poss
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turning	nsubj
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 turning	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	Its feathers			the hot African sun		dark property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sun=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

How loud it clatters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 loud	advmod
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clatters	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clatters	nsubj
4	clatters	clatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clatter	present	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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