Test 7 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

Why would a big grazing animal like the European bison help a forest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big grazing animal · What happens: help · To what, where: forest

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 help	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
5	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	compound
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 bison	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bison	det
9	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bison	amod
10	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nmod
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	a big grazing animal like the European bison	a forest					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary

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

Bison plant new trees all over the forest by digging holes with their big curved horns

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plant	compound
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 forest	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 forest	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 digging	mark
10	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 forest	acl
11	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 digging	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 horns	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horns	nmod:poss
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horns	amod
15	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 horns	amod
16	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 digging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	the forest not said here	holes				with trees's big curved horns	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent hole=Theme with horn=Instrument
2	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bison keep the forest dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive	Bison	the forest				dark property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grazing and trampling open up clearings where other plants and animals can live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trampling	cc
3	trampling	trampling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grazing	conj
4	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 open	compound:prt
6	clearings	clearing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 live	advmod
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plants	amod
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 live	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 animals	cc
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plants	conj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 live	aux
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clearings	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open up	present	Grazing and trampling	clearings					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clearing=Patient
2	live	can	other plants and animals						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Bison eat all the insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 insects	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 insects	det
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

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

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