Test 6 · ★★★ · How animals talk
A young vervet gives the eagle call when a harmless pigeon flies over. What happens next, in real life?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: young vervet, harmless pigeon · What happens: give, fly over, happen · To what, where: eagle call, real life
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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: A young vervet gives the eagle call when a harmless pigeon flies over.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 vervet | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vervet | amod |
| 3 | vervet | vervet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 call | det |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | compound |
| 7 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 flies | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pigeon | det |
| 10 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pigeon | amod |
| 11 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flies | nsubj |
| 12 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 flies | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a young vervet | the eagle call | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly over | present | a harmless pigeon | over property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 happens next, in real life?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 2 happens | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 life | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happens | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | real life | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
The options
Option 1
It never makes the call again in its life
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 | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 makes | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 call | det |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present | It | the call | call's life | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material call=Product |
Option 2
All the vervets climb trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 vervets | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vervets | det |
| 3 | vervets | vervet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 climb | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | all vervets | trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It learns the right use from adults over time
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 learns | nsubj |
| 2 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 use | amod |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learns | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 adults | case |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learns | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | It | the right use | time | from adults | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent use=Topic from adult=Source |
Option 4
It is thrown out of the group for good
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 | 3 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux:pass |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 good | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | It | the group | for good | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme out group=Destination |
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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