Test 8 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

«my uncle says he can hatch a chick from a supermarket egg with a heat lamp» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, heat lamp · What happens: say, hatch, be · To what, where: chick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hatch	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hatch	aux
7	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chick	det
9	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatch	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 egg	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 egg	det
12	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 egg	compound
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatch	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 lamp	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lamp	det
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lamp	compound
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatch	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 lamp	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lamp	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hatch in a quote	can	uncle	a chick	with a heat lamp; from a supermarket egg	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent chick=Product from egg=Patient
3	is	present	a heat lamp		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It won't work: supermarket eggs come from hens with no rooster

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 work	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
6	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eggs	compound
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 hens	case
10	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rooster	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 rooster	det
13	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	future	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	supermarket eggs					from hens; with no rooster	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hen=Initial_Location

Option 2

It works if the egg is brown

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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 brown	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brown	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brown	cop
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 works	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the egg					brown property	tree rules

Option 3

It works after exactly 21 days

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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 days	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 21	advmod
5	21	21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It				day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It works if you turn it every hour and keep it damp with warm water

The tree, 15 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	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 turn	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 works	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it	hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	it		with warm water; damp property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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