Test 6 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

«a book can't save animals, it's just paper» What does Rachel Carson's story show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: book, Rachel · What happens: not save, be, do, show · To what, where: animals, paper, story show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	_	6 save	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 save	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 save	advmod
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 save	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paper	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 paper	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 paper	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 paper	advmod
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 save	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 save	parataxis
16	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 show	nmod:poss
17	Carson	Carson	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rachel	flat
18	's	's	PART	_	16 Rachel	case
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	compound
20	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not save in a quote	can	a book	animals	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	book	paper	tree rules
3	do	present		Rachel's story show	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality
4	show		Rachel		nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Her book was about cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 book	nmod:poss
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cooking	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 cooking	case
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her book					about cooking	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Books never change anything in the real world, only in stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 change	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stories	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 stories	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 stories	case
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Books	anything		the real world		in stories	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her book helped get DDT banned and started the eagle comeback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 book	nmod:poss
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helped	xcomp
5	DDT	ddt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 get	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 started	cc
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 helped	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 comeback	det
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comeback	compound
11	comeback	comeback	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	past	Her book		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	infinitive	Her book not said here	DDT	tree rules
3	ban	participle	DDT not said here		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	start	past	Her book not said here	the eagle comeback	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comeback=Eventuality

Option 4

Her book banned all birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 book	nmod:poss
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banned	nsubj
3	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past	Her book	all birds					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer bird=Theme

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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