Test 1 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

«my cousin says it's fine for brother and sister tigers to have cubs, they're animals innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, cubs, animals · What happens: say, be, have, innit · To what, where: cubs, animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 brother	case
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tigers	cc
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tigers	compound
12	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brother	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tigers	acl
15	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 animals	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 animals	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 animals	cop
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 innit	nsubj
20	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	parataxis
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fine	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present			for brother and sister tigers; fine property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive		cubs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	cubs = cub	animals		tree rules
5	innit in a quote	infinitive	animals			tree rules
6	is	present			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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the cubs stronger and healthier than cubs of strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cubs	det
4	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 healthier	cc
7	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stronger	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 cubs	case
9	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stronger	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 strangers	case
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cubs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the cubs				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cub=Product

Option 2

Animals cannot inherit any illnesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 inherit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 inherit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 inherit	advmod
4	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 illnesses	det
6	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 inherit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not inherit	can	Animals	any illnesses					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme

Option 3

Tigers can only breed with relatives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breed	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 breed	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 breed	advmod
4	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 relatives	case
6	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	can	Tigers					with relatives	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Close relatives pairing makes inherited illnesses more common

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 relatives	amod
2	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pairing	compound
3	pairing	pairing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 illnesses	amod
6	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 common	advmod
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	relatives pairing	inherited illnesses				common property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset illness=Product
2	inherit	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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