Test 4 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

«eagle eating a bird bigger than itself? no way» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: way · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: bird

This is test 4 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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	_	3 eating	punct
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	compound
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bird	amod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bigger	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 eating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	gerund		a bird				no way obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	is	present	no way					right 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

Eagles only ever eat mice and other small animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mice	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eagles	acl:relcl
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 animals	cc
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive	Eagles not said here				ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Haast's eagle hunted moa much heavier than itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eagle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Haast	case
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunted	nsubj
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunted	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 heavier	advmod
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 moa	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	Haast's eagle	moa					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme

Option 3

It ate moa eggs only

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eggs	compound
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	moa eggs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4

Moa were tiny like chickens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiny	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tiny	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 chickens	case
5	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tiny	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Moa					like chickens; tiny property	tree rules

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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