Test 8 · Being gentle with small animals

Why is speaking softly helpful around a small bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 288 «Being gentle with small 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	3 speaking	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 speaking	aux
3	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speaking	xcomp
6	around	around	ADP	_	9 bird	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helpful	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 speaking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · progressive						helpful property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Calm sounds tell the bird you are not a threat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	amod
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 threat	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 threat	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 threat	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 threat	det
10	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Calm sounds		the bird				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
2	not is a	present	you	a threat					tree rules

Option 2

Loud voices are only rude to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voices	amod
2	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rude	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 rude	advmod
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Loud voices					to people; rude property	tree rules

Option 3

Soft words make birds sing at once, and they love singing back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 love	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
11	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
12	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 love	xcomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	Soft words	birds	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	birds not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	love	present	words = word		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sing back speech: express not said to happen	gerund	words = word not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Birds cannot hear loud voices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voices	amod
6	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	Birds	loud voices					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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