Test 9 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

«gulls everywhere in my town, why's anyone protect them» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gulls · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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	_	2 gulls	punct
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 protect	nsubj
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 gulls	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 town	nmod:poss
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everywhere	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 protect	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 protect	advmod
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 protect	cop
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 protect	nsubj
11	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 protect	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 protect	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 protect	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 protect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	gulls					protect property	tree rules
2	is	present						true 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

In the wild, herring gull numbers have fallen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 wild	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wild	det
3	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fallen	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wild	punct
5	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gull	compound
6	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 numbers	compound
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fallen	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fallen	aux
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · perfect	gull numbers			the wild			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

Option 2

Gulls are protected because they are rare in towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protected	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 protected	aux:pass
3	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 rare	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rare	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 protected	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 towns	case
9	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present · passive		Gulls		towns			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	is	present	Gulls = gull					rare property	tree rules

Option 3

Gulls protect themselves, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	nsubj
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 protect	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 people	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Gulls	Gulls = gull					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary

Option 4

Nobody protects gulls anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protects	obj
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 protects	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Nobody	gulls				anywhere property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Beneficiary

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