Test 9 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

«we'll bring our dog to the kakapo island, he's chill» Why is that a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, dog · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: dog, bad idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	4 bring	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bring	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
9	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 island	compound
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chill	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chill	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chill	cop
14	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bring	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 idea	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 idea	cop
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 idea	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 idea	amod
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	future	we	our dog	to the kakapo island	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	dog		chill property	tree rules
3	is a	present		a bad idea		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 · ✓ the right answer

Dogs and rats can kill island birds that never met them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rats	cc
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dogs	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 birds	compound
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 met	obj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 met	advmod
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 birds	acl:relcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	Dogs and rats	island birds					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	not meet	past		island birds					tree rules

Option 2

Kakapo are too loud for dogs, who would bark at them all night and day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kakapo	Kakapo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loud	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loud	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bark	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bark	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bark	aux
10	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loud	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bark	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bark	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kakapo					for dogs; loud property	tree rules
2	bark	would					night	at dogs = dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 3

Dogs get seasick on islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seasick	seasick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 islands	case
5	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Dogs			islands		seasick property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on island=Source

Option 4

Kakapo eat dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kakapo	Kakapo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Kakapo	dogs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

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