Test 7 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«why's the baby giraffe dropped on the ground, that's rough» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby giraffe · What happens: drop, be · To what, where: baby giraffe, ground, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	14 rough	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 rough	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rough	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giraffe	compound
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rough	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 giraffe	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rough	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 rough	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rough	cop
14	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 rough	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop in a quote	participle		the baby giraffe not said here	the ground		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
2	is in a quote	present	the baby giraffe			rough property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer			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

The mother dropped it by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 mistake	case
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the mother	it				by mistake	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by mistake=Destination

Option 2

It is a test of whether the baby is strong enough to live in the wild

The tree, 16 words

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	4 test	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 test	det
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 strong	mark
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 strong	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strong	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 test	acl:relcl
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 live	mark
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 strong	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wild	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wild	det
16	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a test			tree rules
2	is	present	the baby	a test not said here		enough, strong property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	the baby not said here		the wild		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

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

The drop helps break the birth sac and start it breathing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drop	det
2	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sac	det
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sac	compound
7	sac	sac	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 start	cc
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 break	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 start	obj
11	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	the drop		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	infinitive	the drop not said here	the birth sac	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sac=Patient
3	start	infinitive	the drop not said here	sac	tree rules

Option 4

Giraffes are born from eggs in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Giraffes		eggs		in trees	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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