Test 8 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

Why might scientists release healthy zoo devils back into Tasmania?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists, healthy zoo · What happens: release, devil back · To what, where: Tasmania

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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 release	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 release	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 release	nsubj
4	release	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 devils	advcl
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoo	amod
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 devils	nsubj
7	devils	devil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 devils	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 Tasmania	case
10	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 devils	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 devils	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	might	scientists						vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	devil back	present	healthy zoo			Tasmania			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 teach the wild devils to spin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 devils	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 devils	amod
5	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spin	mark
7	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teach	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive			the wild devils				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spin	to-infinitive							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To rebuild wild numbers after the face cancer killed many

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rebuild	mark
2	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 numbers	amod
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rebuild	obj
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 killed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cancer	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cancer	compound
8	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 killed	nsubj
9	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rebuild	advcl
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rebuild	to-infinitive		wild numbers					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Result
2	kill	past	the face cancer	many					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because zoos have run out of food and space for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 run	mark
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 space	cc
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 space	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present · perfect	zoos			food and space for food			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out food=Trajectory

Option 4

To eat all the koalas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 koalas	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 koalas	det
5	koalas	koala	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		all koalas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koala=Patient

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