Test 6 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

«scientists already found every animal, nothing left» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: find, leave, be · To what, where: animal

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 found	punct
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 animal	appos
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nothing	acl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 left	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	9 left	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	scientists	every animal		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
2	leave in a quote	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Thousands of new kinds are described every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 described	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 kinds	case
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kinds	amod
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 described	aux:pass
6	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 described	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		Thousands of new kinds			year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Only about one new animal is found in each century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 animal	nummod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 century	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 century	det
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		one new animal			century		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

Right, nothing new is found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		nothing					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

New animals are made in labs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 labs	case
6	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		New animals		labs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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