Test 1 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

«Australia's got the deadliest animals in the world, everyone dies there» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australia, everyone · What happens: get, die, be · To what, where: deadliest animals, world

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 got	punct
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
6	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dies	punct
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 dies	nsubj
13	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 dies	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 dies	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dies	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	Australia	the deadliest animals	the world		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
2	die in a quote	present	everyone		there		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	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 · ✓ the right answer

It has many very venomous animals, but very few people die of them

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 venomous	advmod
5	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 few	advmod
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 die	nsubj
12	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	many venomous animals					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	die	present	few people					of animals = animal	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of they=Causer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, Australia has no venomous animals at all, that's a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 animals	det
6	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 myth	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 myth	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 myth	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 myth	det
14	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	no venomous animals and a myth		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	is a	present	that	a myth					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, hundreds of people die from bites and stings every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 bites	case
8	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stings	cc
10	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 die	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stings	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	hundreds of people			bites			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from bite=Causer
2	sting	present	hundreds of people not said here				day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, nobody can go outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 go	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	nobody					outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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