Test 17 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

my nan says if u touch a baby bird the mum smells u and kicks it out the nest forever

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, u, mum · What happens: say, touch, smell, kick out · To what, where: baby bird, u, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 touch	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 touch	nsubj
6	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 smells	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	compound
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touch	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mum	det
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smells	nsubj
12	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
13	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 smells	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kicks	cc
15	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kicks	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 kicks	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nest	det
19	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kicks	obj
20	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 kicks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	u	a baby bird		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme
3	smell	present	the mum	u		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	kick out	present	my nan not said here	bird	forever property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient nest=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

She is right, so never look at nests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 nests	case
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	not look	infinitive						at nests	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nest=Theme

Option 2

She is right, the mother always smells your hands and abandons it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 smells	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smells	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 smells	advmod
8	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smells	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 abandons	cc
12	abandons	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smells	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 abandons	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		right property	tree rules
2	smell	present	the mother	your hands	always property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
3	abandon	present	the mother not said here	it		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme it=Source

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

That is a myth; most birds will not abandon a chick because a person touched it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 abandon	punct
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 abandon	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 abandon	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 abandon	advmod
10	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 myth	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chick	det
12	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abandon	obj
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 touched	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	nsubj
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 abandon	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a myth	tree rules
2	not abandon	future	most birds	a chick	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
3	touch	past	a person	chick	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4

She is right, but only for blackbirds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blackbirds	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 blackbirds	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 blackbirds	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 blackbirds	case
8	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					for blackbirds; right property	tree rules

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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