Test 12 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals

can penguins fly

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penguins · What happens: fly

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	penguins						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

No, they have no wings at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	no wings		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

Option 2

Yes, but only over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sea	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sea	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 sea	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they fly south for winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	they				winter	south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, they use their wings as flippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 flippers	case
8	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	their wings				as flippers	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wing=Duration as flipper=Attribute

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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