Test 9 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

«why'd they bring in a snail to eat snails, that's well dumb» What lesson did the Partula story teach?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, that, lesson · What happens: bring, eat, be, do · To what, where: snails, Partula story teach

This is test 9 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bring	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 snail	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snail	det
8	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	advcl
11	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dumb	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 dumb	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dumb	cop
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 dumb	advmod
16	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bring	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 dumb	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 did	obj
19	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dumb	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 teach	det
22	Partula	Partula	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 teach	compound
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teach	compound
24	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	would	they		in a snail	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	they not said here	snails		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	that		dumb, well property	tree rules
4	do	past	lesson	the Partula story teach		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 · ✓ the right answer

Bringing in one animal to fix a problem can cause a bigger one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 cause	csubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 animal	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 animal	nummod
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bringing	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fix	mark
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bringing	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 problem	det
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	aux
10	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	gerund			in one animal	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	fix	to-infinitive		a problem		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
3	cause	can	Bringing	a bigger one		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Patient

Option 2

New animals brought in never cause any trouble on small islands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 animals	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 brought	obl
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 cause	advmod
6	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 trouble	det
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 islands	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 islands	amod
11	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in	participle		New animals not said here					vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	not cause	present	New animals	any trouble		small islands			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Snails always eat only pests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pests	advmod
5	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Snails	pests				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient

Option 4

Islands need more predators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 predators	amod
4	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Islands	more predators					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot predator=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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