Test 9 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: bring back, be · To what, where: real mammoths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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 bringing	punct
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bringing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bringing	aux
4	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 right	csubj
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 bringing	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mammoths	amod
7	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bringing	obj
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bringing	obl:unmarked
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 bringing	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back in a quote	present · progressive	scientists	real mammoths			year		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme
2	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

True, mammoths are already in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mammoths	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 zoos	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 zoos	cop
5	already	already	ADV	_	7 zoos	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoos	case
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	True mammoths			zoos			tree rules

Option 2

True, it is already done, and the first baby mammoth will be in a zoo by next summer, the papers say

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 zoo	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 zoo	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mammoth	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 mammoth	amod
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mammoth	compound
12	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 zoo	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 zoo	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 zoo	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 zoo	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 zoo	det
17	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 summer	case
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 summer	amod
20	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 zoo	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 papers	det
23	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	present · passive		it			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	future	the first baby mammoth		a zoo	summer	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the papers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some hope to make cold-proof elephants with mammoth features, but it has not been done and many question it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 hope	nsubj
2	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hope	xcomp
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proof	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
7	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 elephants	amod
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 features	case
10	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 features	amod
11	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 elephants	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 done	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 done	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 done	aux:pass
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hope	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 question	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 question	amod
21	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 done	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	present	Some			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Some not said here	proof elephants	with mammoth features	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product
3	not do	present · perfect · passive		it	question obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

False, no scientist has ever thought of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scientist	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 scientist	det
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 thought	advmod
7	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		no False scientist			ever	of it	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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