--- title: «eagle eating a bird bigger than itself? no way» What is right? — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow,… · tree and pragmatics description: «eagle eating a bird bigger than itself? no way» What is right? Test 4 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/) / t4 # Test 4 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant… «eagle eating a bird bigger than itself? no way» What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** bird This is test 4 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds:t4:1 # text = «eagle eating a bird bigger than itself? no way» What is right? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | | a bird | | | | no way *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | no way | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Eagles only ever eat mice and other small animals ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds:t4:o1:1 # text = Eagles only ever eat mice and other small animals 1 Eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | infinitive | Eagles *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Haast's eagle hunted moa much heavier than itself ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds:t4:o2:1 # text = Haast's eagle hunted moa much heavier than itself 1 Haast Haast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 moa moa NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past | Haast's eagle | moa | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} It ate moa eggs only ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds:t4:o3:1 # text = It ate moa eggs only 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 moa moa NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | It | moa eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Moa were tiny like chickens ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds:t4:o4:1 # text = Moa were tiny like chickens 1 Moa moa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Moa | | | | | like chickens; tiny *property* | tree rules | **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. 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