Test 2 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

«stingrays are killers then, never going in the sea again» What is fairest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stingrays, killers · What happens: be, not go · To what, where: killers, sea

This is test 2 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 killers	punct
2	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 killers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killers	cop
4	killers	killer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fairest	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 going	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 killers	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 killers	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 fairest	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fairest	cop
16	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 fairest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	stingrays	killers				tree rules
2	not go in a quote	gerund	killers not said here		the sea	then; again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
3	is	present	killers				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 · ✓ the right answer

Stingray accidents like that are extremely rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stingray	stingray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accidents	compound
2	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rare	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 accidents	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
6	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	7 rare	advmod
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stingray accidents like that					extremely, rare property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stingrays live only in the deep sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 live	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Stingrays			the deep sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 3

All stingrays chase people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 stingrays	det
2	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chase	nsubj
3	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	all stingrays	people					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 4

Stingrays attack every swimmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attack	nsubj
2	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 swimmer	det
4	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Stingrays	every swimmer					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Patient

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