Test 9 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…

«extinct in the wild means gone for ever, game over» What does the Arabian oryx story show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: extinct, game · What happens: mean, show

This is test 9 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	_	2 extinct	punct
2	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wild	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wild	det
5	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 extinct	obl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 game	punct
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
12	over	over	ADV	_	20 show	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 over	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 show	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 show	aux
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 show	det
17	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 show	amod
18	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 story	compound
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	compound
20	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	extinct					gone property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	show	present · do-support	game					over 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

It shows oryx moved to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 oryx	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	oryx					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oryx=Recipient
2	move	participle		oryx not said here		the sea			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sea=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It shows oryx were never real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	oryx					real property	tree rules

Option 3

It shows exactly that: once gone from the wild, the oryx can never come back

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 that	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 shows	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shows	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wild	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wild	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oryx	det
13	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 come	advmod
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shows	parataxis
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	that			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
2	go	participle			the wild	once property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial_Location
3	not come back	can	the oryx				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Zoos bred them and released them, and they live in the wild again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bred	nsubj
2	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bred	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 released	cc
5	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bred	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 released	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 live	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 live	nsubj
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bred	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wild	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wild	det
13	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 live	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	breed	past	Zoos	them = they			tree rules
2	release	past	Zoos not said here	Zoos = zoo			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source
3	live	present	Zoos = zoo		the wild	again	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

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