Test 1 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…

«birds eat them berries all day, so they're fine for us» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds, best correction · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 392 «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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 eat	punct
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	obj
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fine	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 fine	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 correction	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 correction	amod
20	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	birds	them = they	day		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	birds = bird			for us; fine property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best correction				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

Birds do not react to the same poisons as people, so that proves nothing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 react	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 react	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 react	advmod
4	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 poisons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poisons	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poisons	amod
8	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 react	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisons	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proves	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 proves	mark
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 proves	nsubj
14	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 react	parataxis
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not react	present · do-support	Birds					to the same poisons as people	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to poison=Theme
2	prove	present	that	nothing					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 2

Birds die from eating berries all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 berries	case
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 berries	amod
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Birds			eating berries	time		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from berry=Causer
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Right, but only if you have seen two birds eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	11 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 seen	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 eat	advcl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 birds	nummod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	present	two birds	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Right, birds and people have the same stomachs, so they can eat the same things

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 birds	conj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stomachs	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stomachs	amod
9	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	birds and people	the same stomachs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient
2	eat	can	birds = bird	the same things					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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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