Test 11 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

Why do many birds nest in spring?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many birds · What happens: do, nest

This is test 11 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nest	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nest	nsubj
5	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nest	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many birds not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nest	present	many birds				spring		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The days are shorter then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shorter	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shorter	advmod

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

Option 2

Birds only lay eggs at Easter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Easter	case
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Birds	eggs		Easter			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme at easter=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Insects to feed the chicks are most plentiful then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plentiful	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 feed	mark
3	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Insects	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chicks	det
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plentiful	cop
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 plentiful	advmod
8	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 plentiful	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive	Insects not said here		the chicks				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient
2	is	present	Insects				then	plentiful property	tree rules

Option 4

The eggs would overheat in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 overheat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 overheat	aux
4	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overheat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	would	the eggs				summer		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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