Test 12 · ★★★ · Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and miss…

«my nan's religious, so she can't believe in evolution» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: evolution

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 280 «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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	_	5 religious	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 religious	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 nan	case
5	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 believe	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believe	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 believe	advmod
11	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 best	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 evolution	case
13	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believe	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 best	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 best	cop
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 religious	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 religious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe in a quote	can	she			evolution			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present						good 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

All religious people reject evolution, so your nan has to as well, whatever she thinks

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det
2	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reject	nsubj
4	reject	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reject	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nan	nmod:poss
9	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reject	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	10 has	xcomp
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 has	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whatever	punct
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 reject	conj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thinks	nsubj
17	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reject	present	all religious people	evolution	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Theme
2	have	present	your nan		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	present	nan		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Evolution is a religion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 religion	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 religion	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 religion	det
4	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Evolution	a religion					tree rules

Option 3

Nobody may talk about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 talk	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	may	Nobody					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many religious people accept evolution and keep their faith; people answer this in different ways

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accept	nsubj
4	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accept	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 accept	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 faith	nmod:poss
9	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answer	nsubj
12	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accept	conj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 answer	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ways	case
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	accept	present	Many religious people	evolution		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	Many religious people not said here	people's faith		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	present	people	this	different ways	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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