Test 5 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

«the robin over in Canada's the same as ours, just bigger» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	_	9 same	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robin	det
3	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 robin	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Canada	case
6	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 robin	nmod
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Canada	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ours	case
11	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 same	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bigger	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 bigger	advmod
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 same	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 bigger	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bigger	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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

No, the American robin is an eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 eagle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robin	det
4	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robin	amod
5	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eagle	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eagle	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the American robin	a eagle					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, the American robin is a thrush, a different bird named after ours

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 thrush	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robin	det
4	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 robin	amod
5	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrush	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thrush	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thrush	det
8	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrush	appos
13	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bird	acl
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 ours	case
15	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the American robin	a thrush					tree rules
2	name	participle		a different bird not said here			after ours		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, they swap countries every winter and come back fatter in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 swap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swap	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swap	nsubj
4	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swap	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swap	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swap	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 fatter	advmod
11	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 come	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spring	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fatter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	they	countries			winter		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
2	come back	infinitive	they not said here					fat property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, exactly the same bird species, it just eats more over there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 species	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 species	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 species	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 species	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 species	compound
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eats	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 species	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eats	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 eats	advmod
11	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 over	advmod
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	the same bird species		there			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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