Test 4 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Why do seagulls at some beaches grab food from people's hands?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: beaches · What happens: do, grab · To what, where: seagulls, food, hands

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grab	advcl
3	seagulls	seagull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 beaches	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 beaches	det
6	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grab	nsubj
7	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 people	case
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grab	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some beaches not said here	seagulls					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seagull=Eventuality
2	grab	present	some beaches	food		people's hands			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from hand=Source

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

They are angry that people swim in their sea

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 swim	mark
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swim	nsubj
6	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sea	nmod:poss
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					angry property	tree rules
2	swim	present	people			people's sea			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

Option 2

Seagulls are trained by beach staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seagulls	seagull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 staff	case
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staff	compound
6	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive	beach staff	Seagulls					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

Seagulls have no other food anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seagulls	seagull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 food	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seagulls	no other food				anywhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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

People fed them and taught them to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 taught	cc
5	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fed	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taught	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	5 taught	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	People	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	past	People not said here		People				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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