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Test 6 · ★ · Birds and baby animals

"Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online." Which question cracks it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: quacks, question · What happens: not echo, baffle, read, crack · To what, where: scientists, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: "Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 echo	punct
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ducks	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mate	punct
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quacks	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 ducks	case
6	quacks	quack	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 echo	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 echo	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 echo	advmod
9	echo	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baffled	punct
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 baffled	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 baffled	aux:pass
13	baffled	baffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 echo	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 read	punct
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 echo	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	obj
17	online	online	ADV	_	15 read	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 echo	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 echo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not echo in a quote	present · do-support	Mate ducks's quacks						tree rules
2	baffle in a quote	present · passive		scientists					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	read in a quote	infinitive	Mate ducks's quacks not said here	it				online property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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: Which question cracks it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cracks	nsubj
3	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cracks	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cracks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present	which question	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Has anyone actually tested it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Has	obj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 tested	advmod
4	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 anyone	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tested	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		anyone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
2	test	past		it				actually property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

How many legs does a duck have?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 legs	amod
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	many legs						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Is it on more than one website?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 website	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 website	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 website	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 one	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 website	nummod
7	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 website	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			one website			tree rules

Option 4

Why are ducks yellow in cartoons?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 yellow	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	cop
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yellow	nsubj
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 cartoons	case
6	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yellow	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 yellow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ducks			cartoons		yellow property	tree rules

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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