Test 6 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

«why would anyone want wolves back, they just eat stuff» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone, wolves, best answer · What happens: want back, eat, be · To what, where: wolves, stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 want	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 eat	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want back in a quote	would	anyone	wolves	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wolf=Theme
2	eat in a quote	present	wolves = wolf	stuff	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer		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

Wolves eat only grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 grass	advmod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Wolves	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2

Wolves are only wanted so that tourists can take photos of them for their friends

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 take	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
10	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 photos	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 friends	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · passive		Wolves					tree rules
2	take not said to happen	can	tourists	photos of Wolves				for Wolves's friends	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent photo=Theme for friend=Beneficiary

Option 3

They do not matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	They			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Top predators shape the whole food web, helping trees, beavers and birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 predators	amod
2	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shape	nsubj
3	shape	shape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 web	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 web	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 web	compound
7	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shape	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helping	punct
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shape	advcl
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 helping	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beavers	punct
12	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trees	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 birds	cc
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	present	Top predators	the whole food web					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product
2	help	gerund	Top predators not said here	trees and beavers and birds					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary

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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