Test 1 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«storks bring babies, that's why they're on the cards» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: storks, that · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: babies, cards

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 bring	punct
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 why	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	cop
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 bring	parataxis
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cards	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cards	cop
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 cards	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cards	det
13	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 why	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cards	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 why	advcl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present	storks	babies			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	that			why property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	storks = stork		the cards		tree rules
4	is	present				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

Storks bring only baby birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	nsubj
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 birds	advmod
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	compound
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Storks		baby birds				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination

Option 2

Right, storks bring all babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	nsubj
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 babies	det
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	storks	all babies					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork is just an old story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 mothers	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mothers	nmod:poss
5	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stork	det
8	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 story	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 story	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 story	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 story	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 story	amod
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Babies					inside Babies's mothers	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mother=Location
2	is a	present	the stork	a old story					tree rules

Option 4

Right, but only in Europe, where the storks nest on the roofs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 Europe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Europe	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Europe	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Europe	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Europe	case
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nest	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 nest	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storks	det
10	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nest	nsubj
11	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Europe	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 roofs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roofs	det
14	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	present	the storks			the roofs			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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