Test 3 · ★★ · Migration: the great journeys

Why would a bird want two summers a year instead of one?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: want

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 summers	nummod
7	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl:unmarked
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 one	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 want	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	a bird				summer; year	instead one	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Summer air is lighter to fly in, so the journey is easier both ways

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 air	compound
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lighter	cop
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lighter	csubj
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 easier	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 journey	det
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 easier	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 lighter	conj
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 ways	det
15	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 easier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Summer air	light property	tree rules
2	fly in	to-infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the journey	both ways obl; easy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Summer gives long days and plenty of food, so it can feed all year

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plenty	cc
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plenty	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 feed	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feed	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 feed	aux
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gives	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Summer				day		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	feed	can	food				year		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It hates the colour of snow

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 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	It	the colour of snow					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It does not, terns are just lost

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 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 does	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
5	terns	tern	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 lost	advmod
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 does	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	It						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	present · passive		terns					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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