Test 18 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

apparently feeding bread to ducks makes them literally explode, my brother said. what's probably blown up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feeding, ducks, brother · What happens: feed, make, explode, say, blow up · To what, where: bread, ducks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	2 feeding	advmod
2	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makes	csubj
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeding	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 ducks	case
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeding	obl
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	literally	literally	ADV	_	9 explode	advmod
9	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 blown	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 blown	nsubj:pass
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 blown	aux
17	probably	probably	ADV	_	18 blown	advmod
18	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 blown	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund		bread	ducks	apparently property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to duck=Recipient
2	make	present	feeding	ducks = duck			tree rules
3	explode	present	ducks = duck not said here			literally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	my brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	blow up	present · passive				probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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

That ducks eat food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ducks	det
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	that ducks	food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Explode; but bread really makes ducks sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 makes	cc
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 makes	advmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Explode	advcl
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	imperative	you not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	bread	ducks				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material duck=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That bread fills them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	nsubj
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fills	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 fills	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	present	that bread	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

That ducks live in ponds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ducks	det
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 ponds	case
5	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	that ducks			ponds			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location

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