Test 11 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

Why did so many animals suffer in the 2019 and 2020 bushfires?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many animals · What happens: do, suffer · To what, where: 2019 bushfires

This is test 11 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» 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	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 suffer	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 suffer	nsubj
6	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 bushfires	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bushfires	det
9	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 bushfires	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 2020	cc
11	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 2019	conj
12	bushfires	bushfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 suffer	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	suffer	present	many animals			the 2019 bushfires			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Rain put the fires out too slowly, so the animals got lost in the smoke

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fires	det
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 lost	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	nsubj:pass
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux:pass
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 put	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 smoke	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smoke	det
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	Rain	the fires				out, slowly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
2	lose	past · passive		the animals		the smoke			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

The animals walked into the fire on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the animals					into the fire result; on purpose	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fire=Result

Option 3

Fires only burned in the zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burned	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 burned	advmod
3	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zoos	det
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	Fires			the zoos			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

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

Hot, dry forests burned very fast and many could not escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forests	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hot	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forests	amod
4	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	nsubj
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 burned	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 escape	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 escape	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 escape	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 escape	advmod
12	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	Hot dry forests					fast property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not escape	could	many						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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