Test 11 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…

ugh tigers are basically extinct anyway, why bother

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tigers · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	5 extinct	discourse
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 extinct	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extinct	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 extinct	advmod
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 extinct	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 extinct	parataxis
9	bother	bother	PUNCT	_	5 extinct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	tigers					anyway, basically, extinct 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

Yes, there are none left anywhere at all, not even in the forests of India

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 are	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 forests	cop
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 are	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 none	acl
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 left	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forests	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 forests	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 forests	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forests	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forests	det
15	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 India	case
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 forests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle				all		anywhere property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
2	not is	present				the forests		of India	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, only cartoon tigers exist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 exist	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 cartoon	advmod
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tigers	compound
5	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 exist	nsubj
6	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	cartoon tigers						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, about 5,500 remain, and protection has made numbers grow in India and Nepal

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 remain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 5,500	advmod
4	5,500	5,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 remain	nsubj
5	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grow	cc
8	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 numbers	amod
11	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 India	case
14	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grow	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Nepal	cc
16	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 India	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remain	present	5,500			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present · perfect · passive		protection		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	grow	present	made numbers		India and Nepal	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location

Option 4

No, there are millions in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 are	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Africa	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	millions in Africa			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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