Test 7 · ★ · Compasses and the magnetic Earth

Why might a racing pigeon get confused over a big lump of magnetic iron ore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: racing pigeon · What happens: get

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 30 «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics 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	6 get	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pigeon	det
4	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigeon	compound
5	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 lump	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lump	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lump	amod
11	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confused	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 ore	case
13	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ore	amod
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ore	compound
15	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lump	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	a racing pigeon					confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It uses the Earth's magnetic field to steer, and that can be disturbed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 field	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Earth	case
6	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 steer	mark
9	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 field	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 disturbed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 disturbed	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 disturbed	nsubj:pass
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 disturbed	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 disturbed	aux:pass
15	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 uses	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	present	It	the Earth's magnetic field	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	steer	to-infinitive		the Earth's magnetic field not said here	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	disturb	can · passive		that	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2

Pigeons are scared of rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigeons					of rocks; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

The rocks block the smell of home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rocks	det
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 block	nsubj
3	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 block	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	the rocks	the smell of home					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer smell=Theme
2	smell		home						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Pigeons only follow motorways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 follow	advmod
3	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	motorways	motorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Pigeons	motorways					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motorway=Theme

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