Test 10 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

why do swallows fly south in autumn

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swallows · What happens: fly

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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	4 fly	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 autumn	case
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present · do-support	swallows				autumn	south property	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

Because the wind blows them there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 blows	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blows	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the wind	them = they		there			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To find food and warmth for the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 warmth	cc
5	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 winter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		food and warmth			winter		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

To get away from the long days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 get	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	to-infinitive					day	away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To lay their eggs in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lay	mark
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eggs	nmod:poss
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	to-infinitive		their eggs		the snow			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in snow=Destination

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