Test 19 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Kai got swooped by a magpie and cried, the year 6s keep calling him Bird Boy

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: magpie, year 6s · What happens: swoop, cry, keep, call · To what, where: Kai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swooped	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swooped	aux:pass
3	swooped	swoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 magpie	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magpie	det
6	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swooped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swooped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 6s	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 6s	compound
12	6s	6	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swooped	conj
14	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 keep	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 calling	obj
16	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Boy	compound
17	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swoop	past · passive	a magpie	Kai	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a magpie not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	the year 6s		tree rules
4	call	gerund	the year 6s not said here	Kai	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme boy=Result

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

Spread it, so he toughens up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 toughens	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 toughens	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toughens	nsubj
6	toughens	toughen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 toughens	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	toughen up	present	he						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Join in, the nickname is only a joke and he'll laugh about it later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Join	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joke	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nickname	det
5	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joke	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joke	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 joke	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Join	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laugh	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laugh	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 laugh	aux
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Join	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laugh	obl
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join in	imperative	you not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	the nickname	a joke		tree rules
3	laugh	future	he		about nickname; late property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not join in; magpies swoop in spring and anyone can get scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 join	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 join	advmod
3	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 join	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 swoop	punct
6	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swoop	nsubj
7	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 join	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swoop	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 get	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swoop	conj
14	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not join in	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	swoop	present	magpies	spring		tree rules
3	get	can	anyone		scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Spread it, and say the bird chased him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chased	nsubj
8	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chased	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	chase	past	the bird	him = he	home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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