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Test 2 · ★ · Birds and baby animals

Leo's aunt bans rice at the wedding to save the birds. What would really happen to birds eating the rice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: aunt, birds · What happens: ban, save, happen, eat · To what, where: rice, wedding, birds

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: Leo's aunt bans rice at the wedding to save the birds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aunt	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leo	case
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bans	nsubj
4	bans	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bans	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bans	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 save	mark
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bans	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 save	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present	Leo's aunt	rice		the wedding			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rice=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	Leo's aunt not said here	the birds					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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.

Sentence 2: What would really happen to birds eating the rice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	obl
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 birds	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rice	det
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to birds	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	birds not said here	the rice					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

The options

Option 1

They would all fall fast asleep on the church roof

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	4 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fall	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roof	compound
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	They			the church roof		all, asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on roof=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nothing special, they eat grains all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	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	5 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	grains			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient

Option 3

They would forget how to fly for a whole week or more

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	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fly	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 week	amod
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 more	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 forget	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	They						tree rules
2	not fly	to-infinitive					week		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would swell up inside and pop like balloons

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	3 swell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swell	aux
3	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 swell	compound:prt
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 swell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pop	cc
7	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swell	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 balloons	case
9	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell up	would	They					inside property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	pop	present	They not said here					like balloons	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

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