Test 5 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…

«pandas are basically extinct, there's like ten left» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pandas · What happens: be, leave

This is test 5 of lesson 282 «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 extinct	punct
2	pandas	panda	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	15 right	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 ten	case
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 left	obl
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 's	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	pandas	basically, extinct property	tree rules
2	leave in a quote	participle		like ten	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

Pandas live only in America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 America	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Pandas			America			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location

Option 2

Pandas are extinct in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 extinct	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 extinct	cop
3	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wild	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wild	det
6	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extinct	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pandas			the wild		extinct property	tree rules

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

There are about 1,800 or more in the wild, and they are now listed as vulnerable

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1,800	advmod
4	1,800	1,800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 are	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 1,800	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 listed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 listed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 listed	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 listed	aux:pass
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 listed	advmod
15	listed	list	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 are	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 vulnerable	case
17	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 listed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be about	present	1,800			the wild; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location
2	list	present · passive		they			now	as vulnerable	tree rules

Option 4

There are only ten left, all kept together in one zoo in the middle of China

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ten	advmod
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 are	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ten	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kept	nsubj:pass
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 are	parataxis
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 kept	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 zoo	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 zoo	nummod
12	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 China	case
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	ten		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep together	participle · passive		all	one zoo	in the middle of China; together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location

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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