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Test 6 · ★ · Birds: feathers, nests and flight

A small bird is busy feeding a chick much bigger than itself in its nest. What might explain this?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: small bird · What happens: be, feed, explain · To what, where: chick, this

This is test 6 · ★ 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 small bird is busy feeding a chick much bigger than itself in its nest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bigger	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chick	det
8	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeding	obj
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 busy	advcl
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 bigger	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 nest	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nest	nmod:poss
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bigger	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small bird					busy property	tree rules
2	feed	gerund			a chick				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient

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 might explain this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 explain	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	aux
3	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 explain	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	might		this					tree rules

The options

Option 1

The chick grew big from extra warmth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chick	det
2	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 warmth	case
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warmth	amod
7	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the chick					from extra warmth; big property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from warmth=Patient

Option 2

The small bird found the chick on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chick	det
6	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the small bird	the chick		the ground			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Topic

Option 3

The chick is the small bird's own baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chick	det
2	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 baby	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 baby	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 baby	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bird	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 baby	amod
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the chick	the small bird's own baby					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A cuckoo laid its egg in that nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cuckoo	det
2	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 egg	nmod:poss
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	a cuckoo	cuckoo's egg		that nest			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination

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