Test 7 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

why do they say orangutans are in danger, there's loads in zoos innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, orangutans, loads · What happens: say, be · To what, where: danger, zoos innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 16 «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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	4 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 's	advcl
5	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 danger	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 danger	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 's	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 innit	case
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 innit	compound
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 's	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	orangutans	danger	tree rules
3	does	present	loads	zoos innit; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in innit=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wild forests are cut down and apes breed slowly, so wild numbers fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forests	amod
2	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breed	cc
7	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 breed	nsubj
8	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 breed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fall	advmod
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 numbers	amod
13	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fall	nsubj
14	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut down	present · passive		Wild forests		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	breed	present	apes		slowly property	tree rules
3	fall	present	wild numbers			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Zoos keep taking all of them out of the forests to put on show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 forests	csubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 taking	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nmod
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 forests	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 forests	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forests	det
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 put	mark
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 keep	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt
14	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	Zoos	the forests	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
2	take	gerund		all	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
3	put on	to-infinitive	Zoos not said here	show	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent show=Goal

Option 3

They are not in danger at all

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	5 danger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 danger	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 danger	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 danger	case
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 danger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	They			danger		at all	tree rules

Option 4

They catch colds from tourists

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 catch	nsubj
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 tourists	case
5	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	They	colds		tourists			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from tourist=Source

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