Test 2 · ★ · Birds: feathers, nests and flight
A bird has a long, thin, curved beak. What does it most likely eat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: have, eat · To what, where: long thin curved beak
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 73 «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» 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
Sentence 1: A bird has a long, thin, curved beak.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beak | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beak | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beak | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thin | punct |
| 9 | curved | curved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beak | amod |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bird | a long thin curved beak | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient |
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 does it most likely eat?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 eat | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · do-support | bird | likely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Big hard seeds and nuts from trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seeds | amod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seeds | amod |
| 3 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nuts | cc |
| 5 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seeds | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seeds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Little fish sifted from the mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | sifted | sift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fish | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mud | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mud | det |
| 6 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sifted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sift | participle | Little fish not said here | from the mud | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from mud=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Meat from other small animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nectar from deep flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 flowers | case |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flowers | amod |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nectar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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