Test 11 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

Why are scientists freezing cells of the northern white rhino?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: be

This is test 11 of lesson 101 «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 freezing	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	cop
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freezing	nsubj
4	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 freezing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 rhino	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rhino	det
8	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rhino	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rhino	amod
10	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cells	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 freezing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	scientists					freeze 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

Option 1

To keep the cells safe as special food for zoo animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cells	det
4	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animals	compound
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the cells				as special food; for zoo animals; safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme

Option 2

To turn them into black rhinos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 turn	mark
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 rhinos	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rhinos	amod
6	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	to-infinitive		them = they		black rhinos			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into rhino=Trajectory

Option 3

To make rhino horn for medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horn	compound
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 medicine	case
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		rhino horn				for medicine	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horn=Material for medicine=Beneficiary

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

To try to make new calves after the last male died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 try	mark
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	xcomp
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calves	amod
6	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 male	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 male	amod
10	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	to-infinitive			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		new calves	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset calf=Product
3	die	past	the last male		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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