Test 12 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

How could cleaner rivers bring back otters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cleaner rivers · What happens: bring back · To what, where: otters

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bring	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
3	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rivers	amod
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
7	otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	could	cleaner rivers		otters				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument otter=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

More fish survive, and otters are no longer poisoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 survive	nsubj
3	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poisoned	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poisoned	cc
6	otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poisoned	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisoned	aux:pass
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 poisoned	advmod
10	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 survive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present	More fish						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	poison	present · passive		otters				long property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Otters only like the taste of clean, fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 taste	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 taste	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taste	det
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Otters	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clean	punct
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste			clean fresh water					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Clean water is warmer for otters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warmer	cop
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 otters	case
6	otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Clean water					for otters; warm property	tree rules

Option 4

Clean rivers flow faster for swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rivers	amod
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flow	nsubj
3	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 flow	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 swimming	case
6	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	present	Clean rivers					for swimming; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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