Test 10 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

«my nan counts birds in her garden for some charity, waste of time» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, time · What happens: count, be · To what, where: birds, garden

This is test 10 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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	_	4 counts	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counts	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 garden	nmod:poss
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 charity	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 charity	det
11	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waste	punct
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charity	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 time	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waste	nmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 counts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count in a quote	present	my nan	birds		nan's garden		for some charity	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	is	present	time					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 · ← Mova's choice

Birds fly away when counted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 fly	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 counted	advmod
5	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	present	Birds					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	participle	Birds not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Only scientists' own counts matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 counts	advmod
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counts	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 scientists	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 counts	amod
5	counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matter	nsubj
6	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	scientists's own counts						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Counts from many people show scientists which birds are rising or falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 people	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Counts	nmod
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 birds	det
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rising	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rising	aux
10	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scientists	acl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 falling	cc
12	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rising	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present	Counts from many people	scientists	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient
2	rise	present · progressive	which birds		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund	which birds not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is useless, because scientists ignore any counts that come from ordinary people

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	3 useless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useless	cop
3	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ignore	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 ignore	mark
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ignore	nsubj
7	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useless	conj
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 counts	det
9	counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ignore	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 counts	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		useless property	tree rules
2	ignore	present	scientists	any counts		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme
3	come	present	any counts		from ordinary people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from people=Initial_Location

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