Test 18 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

heard a goose bit a girl's whole finger off at the lake when she fed it bread, true??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: hear off, feed · To what, where: goose bit, lake, finger

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	compound
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obl:unmarked
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finger	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 finger	amod
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	1 heard	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obl
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 fed	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fed	nsubj
16	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fed	obj
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bread	conj
21	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear off	past		a goose bit		the lake			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
2	feed	past	girl	finger					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient bread=Theme

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

Yes, geese bite off fingers all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 bite	compound:prt
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite off	present	geese	fingers			time		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Probably blown up, but fed geese do bite, so don't hand-feed them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 blown	advmod
2	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bite	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 blown	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bite	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 bite	cc
6	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geese	amod
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bite	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bite	aux
9	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hand	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 hand	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 hand	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hand	advmod
14	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bite	conj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 feed	punct
16	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hand	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow up	participle	fed geese not said here		probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	bite	present · do-support	fed geese			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	not hand	infinitive · do-support	fed geese not said here			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	feed	infinitive	fed geese not said here	geese = goose		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

No, geese have no beaks so cannot bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 beaks	det
6	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 bite	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bite	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bite	advmod
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	geese	no beaks					tree rules
2	not bite	can	no beaks not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, so geese must be chased off every lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 chased	advmod
4	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chased	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 chased	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 chased	aux:pass
7	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 chased	compound:prt
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	must · passive		geese					tree rules

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