Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Biology / Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo… / t9

Test 9 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

In a cartoon, a park ranger spends all day chasing a bear for its picnic basket. What do real rangers mostly do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: park ranger, real rangers · What happens: spend, chase, be, do · To what, where: cartoon, bear

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a park ranger spends all day chasing a bear for its picnic basket.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spends	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ranger	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ranger	compound
7	ranger	ranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spends	nsubj
8	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spends	obj
11	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spends	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chasing	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 basket	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 basket	nmod:poss
16	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 basket	compound
17	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chasing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	a park ranger			a cartoon	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	chase	gerund	a park ranger not said here	a bear				for ranger's picnic basket	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What do real rangers mostly do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rangers	amod
4	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	real rangers					mostly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Only drive tourists around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 drive	advmod
2	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	obj
4	around	around	ADV	_	2 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive around	imperative	you not said here	tourists				around property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme tourist=Trajectory

Option 2

Sell sandwiches to visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sell	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 visitors	case
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	sandwiches	visitors				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme to visitor=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Protect animals and land from poachers, often in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Protect	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 land	cc
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 poachers	case
6	poachers	poacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Protect	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 danger	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	10 danger	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	imperative	you not said here		animals and land			in danger; from poachers	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary from poacher=Theme

Option 4

Chase bears away from picnics all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bears	compound
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	nsubj
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 picnics	case
5	picnics	picnic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl:unmarked

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/t9/