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Test 5 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

The ibis food runs out and the zoo feeds plain fish. What happens over time?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ibis food, zoo · What happens: run out, feed, happen · To what, where: plain fish

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: The ibis food runs out and the zoo feeds plain fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
2	ibis	ibis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	compound
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 runs	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feeds	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeds	nsubj
9	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 runs	conj
10	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeds	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present	the ibis food						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	present	the zoo		plain fish				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient

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: What happens over time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present					time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The ibis slowly turns bright blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ibis	det
2	ibis	ibis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	amod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the ibis					blue, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The ibis loses all its feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ibis	det
2	ibis	ibis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	nsubj
3	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 feathers	det:predet
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the ibis	ibis's feathers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality

Option 3

Nothing changes in its colour at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 colour	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 colour	nmod:poss
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing			its colour		at all	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

New feathers grow in paler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feathers	amod
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 paler	case
5	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	New feathers			paler			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pale=Location

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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