Test 9 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

Why would a bird in the wild hide that it is ill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be

This is test 9 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	12 ill	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ill	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hide	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hide	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hide	amod
8	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod
9	that	that	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hide	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	a bird in the wild hide that hide					ill 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

Ill birds are always very colourful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 colourful	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 colourful	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 colourful	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 colourful	advmod
6	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ill birds					always, colourful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It does not want the keeper or its flock to worry about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keeper	det
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 flock	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flock	nmod:poss
9	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeper	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 worry	mark
11	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 worry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	It	the keeper or its flock					tree rules
2	worry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the keeper or its flock not said here					about flock	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

Option 3

Other birds would steal its nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steal	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 steal	aux
4	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	would	Other birds	its nest					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Weak-looking birds are more likely to be caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looking	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Weak	punct
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 likely	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 caught	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 caught	aux:pass
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	looking birds	likely property	tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive · passive	looking birds not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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