Test 5 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

«my nan says storks never nest by a house of quarrels lol» What is this?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, storks, this · What happens: say, not nest, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nest	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 nest	advmod
7	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nest	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 quarrels	case
12	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 house	nmod
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 nest	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 nest	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 nest	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not nest in a quote	present	storks	by a house of quarrels	tree rules
3	is a	present	this		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

A scientific fact about storks that was proved long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fact	det
2	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fact	amod
3	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 storks	case
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fact	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 proved	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proved	aux:pass
8	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fact	acl
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ago	advmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 proved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past · passive		a scientific fact about storks				ago property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A law in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 law	det
2	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ukraine	case
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 law	nmod

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

Option 3

A rule storks learn at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storks	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 storks	compound
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	a rule storks			school			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An old saying people tell, not something proved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 saying	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	amod
3	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 something	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 something	advmod
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 saying	conj
9	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 something	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	people	a old saying not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saying=Recipient
2	prove	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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