Test 10 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

Why would a family tree help save a species?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family tree · What happens: help, save · To what, where: species

This is test 10 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tree	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tree	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 species	det
9	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	a family tree						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	save	infinitive	a family tree not said here	a species					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme

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

It shows which animal is the oldest only

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 oldest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oldest	det
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 shows	ccomp
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 oldest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It		which animal				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
2	is	present						old property	tree rules

Option 2

It helps keepers choose good family names for all the new babies

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obj
4	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 names	amod
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 names	compound
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 babies	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 babies	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 babies	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 babies	amod
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	keepers					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent keeper=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	choose	infinitive	keepers not said here	good family names				for all new babies	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for baby=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It shows who is related so keepers avoid pairing close relatives

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 related	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 related	cop
5	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 avoid	mark
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 avoid	nsubj
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	advcl
9	pairing	pair	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 avoid	xcomp
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 relatives	amod
11	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pairing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	It			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present			related property	tree rules
3	avoid	present	keepers			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	pair	gerund	keepers not said here	close relatives		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is needed to sell the animals

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	3 needed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive		the animals					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

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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