Exam question 2 · How pets feel and saying goodbye

Identify the meaning of a bird that sits fluffed up and sleepy during the day.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: identify, sit, fluff up, mean · To what, where: meaning, bird

This is exam question 2 of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	fluffed	fluff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sits	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 fluffed	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sleepy	cc
12	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fluffed	conj
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleepy	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of a bird	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	sit	present	a bird		tree rules
3	fluff up	participle	a bird not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	mean			a bird	nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

It is preparing to sing

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 preparing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 preparing	aux
3	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 preparing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	present · progressive	It						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is very happy

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 happy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may be sick

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 sick	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	It					sick property	tree rules

Option 4

It is about to lay an egg

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 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lay	mark
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	lay	to-infinitive		a egg					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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