Test 15 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

why's feeding the ducks n geese a bad idea really

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ducks · What happens: feed, n · To what, where: bad idea, geese

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 feeding	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeding	aux
3	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ducks	det
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 n	nsubj
6	n	n	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeding	ccomp
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 n	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 idea	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 idea	amod
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeding	obj
11	really	really	ADV	_	3 feeding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · progressive		a bad idea					tree rules
2	n	present	the ducks	geese					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

They get way too fat from all the bread to swim at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fat	advmod
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 bread	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bread	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 swim	mark
11	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	They	way		all bread		fat property	tree rules
2	swim	to-infinitive	way not said here			all			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

It makes them fly south too early

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	them = they				early property	tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	them = they not said here					south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They lose their fear of people and start to bite and chase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fear	nmod:poss
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fear	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 start	cc
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lose	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bite	mark
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 start	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chase	cc
12	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	present	They	their fear of people	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality
2	start	infinitive	They not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bite	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	chase	infinitive	They not said here		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	fear		their = they	people	nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

They forget how to make a nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forget	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	They						tree rules
2	not make	to-infinitive		a nest					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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