Test 11 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

Why is a vulture useful even if people think it is ugly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vulture, people · What happens: be, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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	5 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vulture	det
4	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	nsubj
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 think	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 think	mark
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	nsubj
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ugly	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ugly	cop
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 think	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a vulture	useful property	tree rules
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	people		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	vulture	ugly 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 · ← Mova's choice

It eats the rats and beetles that ruin farmers' crops

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	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beetles	cc
6	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rats	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ruin	nsubj
8	ruin	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rats	acl:relcl
9	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crops	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 farmers	case
11	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	the rats and beetles					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
2	ruin	present	the rats and beetles	farmers's crops					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

Option 2

It guards the herds from lions

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	2 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herds	det
4	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guards	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 lions	case
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guards	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	It	the herds				from lions	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herd=Beneficiary from lion=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It cleans up dead animals and stops disease spreading

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	2 cleans	nsubj
2	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 cleans	compound:prt
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cleans	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stops	cc
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cleans	conj
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spreading	compound
9	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean up	present	It	dead animals					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	stop	present		disease spreading					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spreading=Eventuality

Option 4

It pollinates flowers

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	2 pollinates	nsubj
2	pollinates	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pollinates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present	It	flowers					tree rules

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