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Test 4 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

«bird pooped on dad's car again, why's it white?» What is the right answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, right answer · What happens: poop, be · To what, where: bird

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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

Sentence 1: «bird pooped on dad's car again, why's it white?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pooped	poop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 car	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dad	case
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pooped	obl:agent
8	again	again	ADV	_	3 pooped	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 white	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 white	advmod
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 white	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 white	nsubj
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bird	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poop in a quote	participle		bird not said here			again		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	car					white 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.

Sentence 2: What is the right answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the right answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Birds paint their droppings white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	nsubj
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 droppings	nmod:poss
4	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paint	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Birds	Birds's droppings				white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dropping=Destination

Option 2

Birds drink milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The white part is the bird's waste water made into a paste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 water	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bird	case
8	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 water	acl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 paste	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 paste	det
13	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the white part	the bird's waste water					tree rules
2	make	participle		the bird's waste water not said here		a paste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into paste=Product

Option 4

Birds eat lots of chalk and little stones, and that comes out white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 chalk	case
5	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stones	cc
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 comes	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 comes	compound:prt
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Birds	lots of chalk and little stones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	come out	present	that					white property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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