Test 3 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

Why do gulls at some seaside towns snatch food from people's hands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: seaside towns · What happens: do, snatch · To what, where: gulls, food, hands

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snatch	advcl
3	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 towns	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 towns	det
6	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 towns	compound
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snatch	nsubj
8	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snatch	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 hands	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snatch	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 snatch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some seaside towns not said here	gulls					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Eventuality
2	snatch	present	some seaside towns	food		people's hands			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from hand=Source

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

People have fed them, so they learned to grab food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 learned	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 learned	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learned	nsubj
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grab	mark
10	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learned	xcomp
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feed	present · perfect	People	them = they	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	learn	past	People		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grab	to-infinitive	People not said here	food	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2

Gulls are always starving at the seaside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 starving	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 starving	advmod
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 seaside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seaside	det
7	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present · progressive	Gulls			the seaside		always property	tree rules

Option 3

Gulls cannot find any fish left in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fish	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	can	Gulls	any fish					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
2	leave	participle		any fish not said here				in the sea result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Result

Option 4

Gulls are trained to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trained	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive		Gulls					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	do	to-infinitive	Gulls not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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