Test 7 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

kid says the toucan's beak must be super heavy, it's massive lol. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, beak · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toucan	det
4	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beak	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 toucan	case
6	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heavy	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heavy	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heavy	cop
9	super	super	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 massive	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 massive	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 massive	cop
14	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heavy	conj
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 heavy	discourse
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heavy	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kid		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	must	the toucan's beak	heavy, super property	tree rules
3	is	present	beak	massive 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, toucans can hardly lift their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lift	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	toucans	toucan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lift	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lift	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 lift	advmod
6	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	can	toucans	toucans's heads				hardly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it is light and full of air spaces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 light	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 light	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 full	cc
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 spaces	case
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spaces	compound
10	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					light property	tree rules
2	be							of air spaces	tree rules

Option 3

No, it is made of soft rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rubber	case
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rubber	amod
8	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		it				of soft rubber	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Yes, so toucans walk instead of fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
4	toucans	toucan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 fly	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	toucans					instead fly	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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