Test 8 · ★ · Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baoba…

Why might losing a rare plant in Madagascar be bad for people far away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Madagascar · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: rare plant

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 164 «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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	3 losing	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bad	case
8	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bad	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bad	cop
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 losing	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 losing	obl
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	3 losing	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 losing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might		a rare plant				for people; away property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Eventuality
2	is	infinitive	Madagascar					bad 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 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the air in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Europe	case
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the air		Europe			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material air=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might hold a medicine no one has found yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hold	conj
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	might	It	a medicine					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
2	find	present · perfect · passive		no one			yet		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

All bread is made from it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		all bread		it			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from it=Material

Option 4

People need its wood for building houses and boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wood	nmod:poss
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 houses	case
6	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 houses	compound
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boats	cc
9	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 houses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	People	its wood				for building houses and boats	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=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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