Test 17 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

heard someone's budgie died cos their mum burnt a non-stick pan in the kitchen, that's mad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: budgie, mum, that · What happens: hear, die, burnt, be · To what, where: non-stick pan, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 budgie	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
4	budgie	budgie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 burnt	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	nsubj
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pan	det
11	non-stick	non-stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pan	compound
12	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mad	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 mad	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mad	cop
19	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	past	someone's budgie				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	burnt	past	their mum	a non-stick pan	the kitchen		tree rules
4	is	present	that			mad property	tree rules

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

It is real; fumes from overheated non-stick pans can kill birds quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
5	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kill	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 pans	case
7	overheated	overheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pans	amod
8	non-stick	non-stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pans	compound
9	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fumes	nmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 real	conj
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kill	obj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 kill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		real property	tree rules
2	overheat	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	kill	can	fumes from overheated non-stick pans	birds	quickly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 2

It means birds are only safe outdoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	birds					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
2	is	present						outdoors, safe property	tree rules

Option 3

It proves birds die from any cooking smell at all, even toast or soup

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 smell	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 smell	det
7	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	compound
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 die	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 toast	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 toast	advmod
13	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proves	parataxis
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 soup	cc
15	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 toast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	present	birds			any cooking smell		at all	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from smell=Causer

Option 4

It must be made up, pans cannot harm birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 harm	punct
7	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harm	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 harm	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 harm	advmod
10	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	must · passive		It					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	not harm	can	pans	birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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