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Test 6 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Children find a blackbird's nest in a garden in Glasgow. Why should they not take an egg?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Children · What happens: find, not take · To what, where: nest, garden, egg

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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

Sentence 1: Children find a blackbird's nest in a garden in Glasgow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blackbird	det
4	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nest	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 blackbird	case
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Glasgow	case
11	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 garden	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Children	a blackbird's nest		a garden in Glasgow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: Why should they not take an egg?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 take	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	should	Children = child	a egg					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

The options

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

It harms the bird's family and is against the law

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 harms	nsubj
2	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bird	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harms	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 law	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 law	cop
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harms	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	present	It	the bird's family					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer
2	is	present						against the law	tree rules

Option 2

The eggs are always empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 empty	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 empty	advmod
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the eggs					always, empty property	tree rules

Option 3

Blackbirds do not care about their eggs, they lay more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 eggs	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eggs	nmod:poss
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 care	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	present · do-support	Blackbirds					about Blackbirds's eggs	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about egg=Stimulus
2	lay	present	Blackbirds = blackbird	more					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Result

Option 4

Eggs hatch faster at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hatch	nsubj
2	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 hatch	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	Eggs			home		fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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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