Exam question 4 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pedestrian who strikes a magpie with stones.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, pedestrian · What happens: select, establish, concern, strike · To what, where: response, pedestrian, magpie

This is exam question 4 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pedestrian	det
11	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 strikes	nsubj
13	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pedestrian	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 magpie	det
15	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strikes	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 stones	case
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strikes	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a pedestrian		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pedestrian=Experiencer
4	strike	present	a pedestrian	a magpie	with stones	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent magpie=Patient with stone=Instrument

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 bird will thereafter avoid that pedestrian entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 avoid	aux
4	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	5 avoid	advmod
5	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pedestrian	det
7	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	obj
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 avoid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	future	the bird	that pedestrian				entirely, thereafter property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pedestrian=Location

Option 2

The bird will relocate its nest the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relocate	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 relocate	aux
4	relocate	relocate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relocate	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relocate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relocate	future	the bird	bird's nest			day		tree rules

Option 3

The bird will forget the matter at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	future	the bird	the matter					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bird may remember the pedestrian and swoop more often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pedestrian	det
6	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swoop	cc
8	swoop	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	conj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 often	advmod
10	often	often	ADV	_	8 swoop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	may	the bird	the pedestrian					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pedestrian=Theme
2	swoop	present	the bird not said here					often 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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