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Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

A child in Auckland finds a featherless baby bird on the ground below a nest she can reach. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: find, reach, be · To what, where: featherless baby bird, ground, nest

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: A child in Auckland finds a featherless baby bird on the ground below a nest she can reach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Auckland	case
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
7	featherless	featherless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	compound
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	nmod
13	below	below	ADP	_	15 nest	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nest	det
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ground	nmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reach	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nest	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a child in Auckland	a featherless baby bird		the ground below a nest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	reach	can	child	a nest not said here					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=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.

Sentence 2: What is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Leave it on the ground for the parents to feed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parents	det
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feed	mark
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		the ground		for the parents	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Location
2	feed	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask an adult to put it gently back in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	put back not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult		the nest		gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in nest=Destination

Option 3

Leave it out because its parents will reject it now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 reject	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reject	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reject	aux
8	reject	reject	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reject	obj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 reject	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	reject	future	its parents	it			now		vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Take it home and feed it bread and milk

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feed	cc
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 milk	cc
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	feed	present	you not said here	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient bread=Theme

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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