Test 4 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

«bald eagles are bald, it's in the name, duh» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bald eagles, it · What happens: be · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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	_	5 bald	punct
2	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagles	amod
3	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bald	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bald	cop
5	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 name	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 name	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 name	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bald	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 duh	punct
13	duh	duh	INTJ	_	11 name	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bald	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bald	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bald	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bald eagles		bald property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	it	the name		tree rules
3	is	present			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

Yes, they lose all their head feathers when they grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 feathers	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	compound
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 grow	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grow	nsubj
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	they	their head feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	grow up	present	feathers = feather						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, they have red head feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feathers	amod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feathers	compound
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	red head feathers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They have white head feathers; bald is an old word for white

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feathers	amod
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feathers	compound
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct
7	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 word	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 white	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	white head feathers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	is a	present		a bald old word				for white	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, only the bald ones are called eagles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 ones	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
5	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		the bald ones					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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