Test 12 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

wanna see the bird up close so i ran at it n it flew off

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, bird · What happens: see, run, fly off · To what, where: bird

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 see	dep
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	parataxis
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 see	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	obl
12	n	n	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive		the bird	close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	run	past	i		at bird	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory
3	fly off	past	bird			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Throw bread at it to make it stay, birds always stop for bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Throw	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 bread	case
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	bread	bread		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bread=Theme at it=Destination
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	bread			tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	bread not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	present	birds			for bread; always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Move slowly and speak softly so animals feel safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 speak	cc
4	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Move	conj
5	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 feel	mark
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Move	advcl
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	present	you not said here	softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	present	animals	safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Shout first so it looks at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Shout	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	it					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme

Option 4

Run faster next time to catch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Run	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl:unmarked
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here				time	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/t12/