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Test 7 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

«crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!» Why do keas do this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap, keas · What happens: nick, do · To what, where: wiper, car, this

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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: «crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
2	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nicking	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kea	det
5	kea	kea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicking	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 kea	case
7	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crap	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wiper	det
9	wiper	wiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicking	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 car	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicking	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick in a quote	gerund	crap not said here	the wiper		the car			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wiper=Theme off car=Source

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: Why do keas do this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	keas	kea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	keas	this					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They hate cars and attack them to drive them out of the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 attack	cc
5	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hate	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 attack	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drive	mark
8	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attack	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drive	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountains	det
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	They	cars					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
2	attack	infinitive	They not said here	cars = car					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	drive	to-infinitive	They not said here	cars = car		the mountains			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out mountain=Trajectory

Option 2

They are hungry and eat rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eat	cc
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	conj
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					hungry property	tree rules
2	eat	present	They not said here	rubber					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Patient

Option 3

Someone trained them to steal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 trained	nsubj
2	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trained	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 steal	mark
5	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trained	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	past	Someone	them = they					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute
2	steal	to-infinitive	them = they not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are very clever and curious and try out everything they find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 curious	cc
6	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clever	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 try	compound:prt
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 try	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					clever property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules
3	try out	infinitive	They not said here	everything					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	find	present	they						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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