Test 1 · ★ · Endangered animals and extinction

In a cartoon, the dodo is a fat, silly bird that waddles off a cliff. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dodo, silly bird · What happens: be, waddle off · To what, where: fat, cartoon, cliff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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: In a cartoon, the dodo is a fat, silly bird that waddles off a cliff.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dodo	det
6	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fat	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fat	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fat	det
9	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct
11	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fat	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 waddles	nsubj
14	waddles	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	acl:relcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 waddles	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cliff	det
17	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waddles	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the dodo	a fat and silly bird		a cartoon			tree rules
2	waddle off	present	silly bird	a cliff					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=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 is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The dodo suited its island and died out because of people and ship animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dodo	det
2	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suited	nsubj
3	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 island	nmod:poss
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suited	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suited	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 died	compound:prt
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 people	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 animals	cc
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 animals	compound
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suit	past	the dodo	dodo's island					tree rules
2	die out	past	the dodo not said here					because people and ship animals	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, all dodos fell off cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dodos	det
4	dodos	dodo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fell	compound:prt
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	all dodos	cliffs					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, the dodo was too stupid to live, which is why it fell off cliffs and died

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 stupid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dodo	det
4	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stupid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stupid	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 stupid	advmod
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stupid	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 why	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stupid	advcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	17 cliffs	case
17	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dodo		stupid property	tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	the dodo not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	fall off	past	dodo	cliffs		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient cliff=Extent
5	die	past	dodo not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

The dodo is not extinct and lives in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dodo	det
2	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 extinct	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extinct	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 extinct	advmod
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lives	cc
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extinct	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoos	case
9	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the dodo					extinct property	tree rules
2	live	present	the dodo not said here			zoos			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

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