Test 10 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

Which of these animals is safe to treat like a pet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, treat

This is test 10 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 safe	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 animals	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Which	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 treat	mark
8	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 safe	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 pet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pet	det
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 treat	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						safe property	tree rules
2	treat	to-infinitive						like a pet	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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 swan, once it knows you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swan	det
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 knows	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swan	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	swan	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

The magpie, if you whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magpie	det
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whistle	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 whistle	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 whistle	nsubj
6	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 magpie	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	present	you	the magpie not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magpie=Topic

Option 3

The goose, if you bring it a bag of bread every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goose	det
2	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 bring	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goose	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bread	case
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bag	nmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	you	goose			day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination bag=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

None of them: magpie, goose, swan and hedgehog are all wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 wild	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 magpie	punct
5	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goose	punct
7	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magpie	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swan	punct
9	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magpie	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hedgehog	cc
11	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swan	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wild	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 wild	advmod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	None					all, wild 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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