Test 9 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

«why would a stork pee on its own legs, gross» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gross · What happens: be · To what, where: reason

This is test 9 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	_	12 gross	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 gross	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 gross	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pee	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pee	compound
6	pee	pee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gross	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pee	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
12	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	nsubj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 gross	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 reason	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reason	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gross	the reason					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 · ← Mova's choice

It does it by accident

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 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 does	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 accident	case
5	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	It	it				by accident	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

It is washing its feathers

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	3 washing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 washing	aux
3	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 washing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · progressive	It	its feathers					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 3

It is marking the nest so other storks keep away

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	3 marking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 marking	aux
3	marking	mark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marking	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 storks	amod
8	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 marking	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present · progressive	It	the nest					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent nest=Destination
2	keep away	present	other storks					away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The drying liquid cools its blood on hot days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 liquid	det
2	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liquid	compound
3	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	nsubj
4	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blood	nmod:poss
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cools	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cools	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the drying liquid	liquid's blood			day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

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