Test 11 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

«trees just for looks innit» What did women in Kenya plant trees for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: look, do · To what, where: trees, women, Kenya plant trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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	_	2 trees	punct
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looks	obl
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 looks	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 looks	case
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looks	parataxis
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 did	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 trees	case
12	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 trees	compound
13	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trees	compound
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 did	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	9 did	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present		trees					tree rules
2	do	past		women		Kenya plant trees			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality

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

To hide from tax collectors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 collectors	case
4	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collectors	compound
5	collectors	collector	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				tax collectors			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from collector=Beneficiary

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

Firewood, clean water and good soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Firewood	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 soil	cc
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soil	amod
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Firewood	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Only to make the village look pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 make	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 make	mark
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the village					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the village not said here					pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

To feed giraffes in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 zoos	case
5	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		giraffes		zoos			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent giraffe=Value in zoo=Location

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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