Test 12 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

baby bird hopping on the ground, rescue it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby bird · What happens: hop, rescue · To what, where: ground, bird

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» 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	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	compound
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopping	nsubj
3	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rescue	punct
8	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hopping	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rescue	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hopping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	gerund	baby bird			the ground			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
2	rescue	infinitive	baby bird not said here	bird					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Probably a fledgling, parents still feed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	3 fledgling	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fledgling	det
3	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fledgling	punct
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feed	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 feed	advmod
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	parents	a fledgling			still		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it's always lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 lost	advmod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		it				always property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Put it back up and never touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 touch	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	not touch	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

Take it home in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		a box		home property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in box=Location

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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