Test 6 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

«that stork is dead silent, it must be ill» What is more likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: stork · What happens: be

This is test 6 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	_	6 silent	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stork	det
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silent	amod
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 likely	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ill	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silent	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 silent	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 likely	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 likely	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that stork	silent property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	must	stork	ill property	tree rules
3	is	present		likely 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

Silent storks are always sick and should be taken to a vet at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 storks	amod
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 sick	advmod
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taken	cc
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sick	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 vet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vet	det
12	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Silent storks					always, sick property	tree rules
2	take	should · passive	Silent storks not said here					to a vet result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to vet=Result

Option 2

It lost its voice from cold

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 cold	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	It	its voice		cold			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme from cold=Initial_Location

Option 3

It is a toy stork

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	5 stork	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stork	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stork	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stork	compound
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 storks	amod
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 silent	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silent	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 silent	advmod
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clatter	cc
7	clatter	clatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silent	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bills	nmod:poss
9	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clatter	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 clatter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	White storks		almost, silent property	tree rules
2	clatter	present	White storks not said here	storks's bills	instead property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme
3	bill		storks = stork			nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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