Test 14 · ★ · Kindness to animals

Why might a swan attack children who throw sticks at its nest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: attack children · What happens: throw · To what, where: sticks, nest

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 children	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attack	compound
5	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 children	compound
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 might	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 throw	nsubj
8	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 children	acl:relcl
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nest	nmod:poss
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present	a attack children	sticks		its nest			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at nest=Destination

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

It wants the sticks for itself

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sticks	det
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wants	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wants	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It	the sticks				for itself = it	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stick=Theme

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

It is protecting its eggs and young

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	3 protecting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 protecting	aux
3	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eggs	nmod:poss
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protecting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 young	cc
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 protecting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present · progressive	It	its eggs					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary

Option 3

Swans like to play rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 play	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Swans						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Swans not said here					rough property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Swans attack everyone they see, every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attack	nsubj
2	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 attack	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everyone	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Swans	everyone					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
2	see	present	Swans = swan						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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