Test 8 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

«lynx in Scotland?? they'll eat kids» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lynx · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: kids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 lynx	punct
2	lynx	lynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Scotland	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lynx	nmod
5	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 lynx	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eat	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	future	lynx in Scotland	kids					tree rules
2	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

Lynx eat only sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lynx are shy, eat deer and are not known to attack people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	conj
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 known	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 known	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 known	advmod
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shy	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 attack	mark
12	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 known	xcomp
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 attack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lynx		shy property	tree rules
2	eat	present	Lynx not said here	deer		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient
3	not know	present · passive	Lynx not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Stimulus
4	attack	to-infinitive	Lynx not said here	people		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3

Lynx are as big as lions and hunt anything they can find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 big	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 lions	case
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 big	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hunt	cc
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	conj
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hunt	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lynx		as lions; big property	tree rules
2	hunt	present	Lynx not said here	anything		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
3	find	can	lions = lion			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, lynx hunt children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hunt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct
3	lynx	lynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	nsubj
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	lynx	children					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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