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Test 2 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

My little brother says parrots know everything they say. Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, parrots · What happens: say, know · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: My little brother says parrots know everything they say.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 know	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everything	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My little brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	parrots	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	parrots = parrot						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

Sentence 2: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, parrots understand every single word they say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 understand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	parrots	every single word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	parrots = parrot	every single word not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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

They copy sounds; some, like Alex, learned simple meanings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 learned	punct
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 learned	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Alex	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 Alex	case
8	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 some	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Alex	punct
10	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copy	conj
11	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meanings	amod
12	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	They	sounds					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	learn	past	some	simple meanings					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic

Option 3

Yes, parrots learn English at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	parrots	English		school			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic

Option 4

No, parrots cannot make any sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sounds	det
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	parrots	any sounds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

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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