Test 7 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…
«monarch butterflies fly to Mexico and back, same ones» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: monarch butterflies, same ones · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: Mexico · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 butterflies | compound |
| 3 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Mexico | case |
| 6 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 back | cc |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 fly | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ones | punct |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 ones | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 right | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | present | monarch butterflies | Mexico | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mexico=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | same ones | 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
Yes, each one flies there and back twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 flies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flies | nsubj |
| 5 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flies | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 back | cc |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 there | conj |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 flies | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | each one | there | twice property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The trip north takes several generations; the returners are their descendants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 north | det |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 north | compound |
| 3 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 generations | amod |
| 6 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 takes | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 descendants | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 returners | det |
| 9 | returners | returner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 descendants | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 descendants | cop |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 takes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the trip north | several generations | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the returners | returners's descendants | tree rules |
Option 3
No, they never leave Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 leave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | present | they | Mexico | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mexico=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, they live for twenty years, so they can make the trip again and again
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trip | det |
| 14 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 again | cc |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 again | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | they | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | can | they | the trip | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
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