Test 11 · Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thyla…

«they made new quaggas from DNA, so it's back from extinction» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, DNA · What happens: make, be · To what, where: new quaggas, DNA, extinction

This is test 11 of lesson 281 «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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	_	3 made	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quaggas	amod
5	quaggas	quagga	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 DNA	case
7	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quaggas	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 back	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 back	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 back	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 back	cop
12	back	back	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 extinction	case
14	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 closer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 closer	cop
18	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 truth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 truth	det
21	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 closer	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	they	new quaggas	DNA		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset quagga=Product from dna=Material
2	is in a quote	present	DNA		extinction	back property	tree rules
3	is	present				to the truth; close 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 quagga never went extinct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 quagga	det
2	quagga	quagga	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	the quagga					extinct property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, real quaggas were made from old DNA in a laboratory and now live again in the wild

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quaggas	amod
4	quaggas	quagga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 DNA	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 DNA	amod
9	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 laboratory	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 laboratory	det
12	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 live	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 live	advmod
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 live	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wild	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wild	det
19	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		real quaggas		old DNA		in a laboratory	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from dna=Material
2	live	present				the wild	now; again		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A project bred plains zebras to look like quaggas; the original quagga is still gone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 project	det
2	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bred	nsubj
3	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 zebras	compound
5	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bred	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bred	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 quaggas	case
9	quaggas	quagga	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 quagga	det
12	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 quagga	amod
13	quagga	quagga	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	breed	participle	a project	plains zebras			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	a project not said here			like quaggas	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	the original quagga		still	go property	tree rules

Option 4

Quaggas were made from horse DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quaggas	quagga	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 DNA	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 DNA	compound
6	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Quaggas		horse DNA			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from dna=Material

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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