Test 7 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

«a beaver's back in our river, it'll ruin everything» What is fairest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: back · What happens: ruin, be · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	12 ruin	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beaver	det
3	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 beaver	case
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ruin	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 river	nmod:poss
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ruin	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ruin	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ruin	aux
12	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fairest	ccomp
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 ruin	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 ruin	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 fairest	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fairest	cop
17	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 fairest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin in a quote	future	a beaver's back in our river	everything					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	is	present						fair 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 · ← Mova's choice

Beavers always destroy towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 destroy	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 destroy	advmod
3	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 destroy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	present	Beavers	towns				always property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Beaver dams slow floods and make ponds full of life, but some farmers worry about flooded fields

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dams	compound
2	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
3	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	conj
7	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worry	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 worry	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 farmers	det
14	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worry	nsubj
15	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	advcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 fields	case
17	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fields	amod
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Beaver dams	floods		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flood=Patient
2	make	present	Beaver dams not said here	ponds	full property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product
3	worry	present	some farmers		about flooded fields	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus
4	flood	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Beavers are dangerous to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Beavers					to children; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

Beavers bring nothing but floods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	nsubj
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 bring	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 floods	cc
5	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Beavers	nothing					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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