Test 3 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

«you're 10, you can't save nature, leave it to grown-ups» What does Felix Finkbeiner's story show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, 10 · What happens: be, not save, leave, grow, show · To what, where: 10, nature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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 10	punct
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 10	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 10	cop
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 save	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 save	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 save	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 save	advmod
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leave	punct
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 save	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 ups	case
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ups	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grown	punct
17	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 show	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 ups	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 show	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 show	aux
21	Felix	Felix	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 show	nmod:poss
22	Finkbeiner	Finkbeiner	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Felix	flat
23	's	's	PART	_	21 Felix	case
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	compound
25	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	parataxis
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	10		tree rules
2	not save in a quote	can	10	nature		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme
3	leave in a quote	infinitive	10 not said here	nature		tree rules
4	grow in a quote	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	present · do-support			to grown ups	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

Trees planted by children do not grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
2	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Trees	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 planted	obl
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grow	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 grow	advmod
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	participle		Trees not said here				by children	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by child=Destination
2	not grow	present · do-support	Trees						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Children can only watch TV about nature and learn about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 watch	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 watch	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 nature	case
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learn	cc
9	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 watch	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	can	Children	TV				about nature	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme
2	learn	infinitive	Children not said here					about nature	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3

Only grown-ups can plant trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plant	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	aux
6	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plant	can	grown ups	trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He started a campaign at 9 that planted millions of trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 campaign	det
4	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 9	case
6	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 campaign	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 planted	nsubj
8	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 campaign	acl:relcl
9	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 planted	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	He	a campaign		9			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Eventuality
2	plant	past	a campaign	millions of trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Patient

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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