Test 4 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…
In the cartoon Dumbo, a stork flies a baby elephant to its mother in a bundle. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: stork · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: baby elephant, cartoon Dumbo
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: In the cartoon Dumbo, a stork flies a baby elephant to its mother in a bundle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dumbo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dumbo | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dumbo | compound |
| 4 | Dumbo | Dumbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dumbo | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stork | det |
| 7 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | nsubj |
| 8 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 elephant | compound |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bundle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bundle | det |
| 17 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flies | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a stork | a baby elephant | the cartoon Dumbo | to stork's mother result; in a bundle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme to mother=Result |
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: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Storks bring only human babies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 babies | advmod |
| 4 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 babies | amod |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Storks | human babies | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Only circus babies come by stork
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 circus | advmod |
| 2 | circus | circus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 babies | amod |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 stork | case |
| 6 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | circus babies | by stork | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stork=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork story is an old tale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 mothers | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tale | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | compound |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tale | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tale | amod |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Babies | inside Babies's mothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mother=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the stork story | a old tale | tree rules |
Option 4
Storks really do carry baby elephants and other big babies to their mothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elephants | compound |
| 6 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 babies | cc |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 babies | amod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 babies | amod |
| 10 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elephants | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mothers | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · do-support | Storks | baby elephants and other big babies | Storks's mothers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme to mother=Destination |
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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