Test 10 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

How would scientists know if a release worked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists, release · What happens: know, work

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 worked	csubj:pass
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 worked	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 release	det
7	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worked	nsubj
8	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	scientists						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	work	participle	a release						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The animals send postcards

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 send	nsubj
3	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	postcards	postcard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	the animals	postcards					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent postcard=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tracking shows the animals find food, survive and have young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tracking	tracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 survive	punct
8	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	conj
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Tracking			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	present	the animals	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	survive	present	the animals not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	the animals not said here		young property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Every animal comes back to the zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 zoo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	every animal			the zoo			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to zoo=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They count how many visitors came to see the release on the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 count	nsubj
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 visitors	amod
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 count	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 release	det
10	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	count	present	They			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	come	past	many visitors			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	many visitors not said here	the release	day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer release=Stimulus

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