Exam question 2 · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…
State the number of wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and 1996, and the country of their origin.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, reintroduce · To what, where: number, wolves, Yellowstone Park, 1995
This is exam question 2 of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wolves | case |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | reintroduced | reintroduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wolves | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Park | case |
| 8 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Park | compound |
| 9 | National | National | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Yellowstone | flat |
| 10 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reintroduced | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1995 | case |
| 12 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reintroduced | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 1996 | cc |
| 14 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1995 | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 country | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 country | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 origin | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 origin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 country | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of wolves | the country of wolves's origin obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | |||
| 2 | reintroduce | participle | wolves not said here | Yellowstone Park | 1995 | 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
Three hundred and ten, from Russia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ten | cc |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Russia | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Russia | case |
| 7 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hundred | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Thirty-one, from Scotland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scotland | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Scotland | case |
| 6 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Thirteen, from Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mexico | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Mexico | case |
| 4 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thirteen | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Thirty-one, from Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Thirty | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Canada | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Canada | case |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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