Test 11 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

Why does a photo matter when you report a rare beetle to a nature app?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, report · To what, where: photo matter, rare beetle, nature app

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 matter	det
4	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	compound
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 report	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 report	nsubj
8	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beetle	det
10	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beetle	amod
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 report	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 app	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 app	det
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 app	compound
15	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 report	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a photo matter					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality
2	report	present	you	a rare beetle	a nature app				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent beetle=Topic to app=Recipient

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

It tells the beetle you are there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 there	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 beetle	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	It		the beetle				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beetle=Recipient
2	is	present	you	the beetle not said here				there property	tree rules

Option 2

It makes the beetle bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the beetle				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material beetle=Product

Option 3

Apps do not accept words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accept	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accept	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 accept	advmod
4	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accept	present · do-support	Apps	words					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Experts can check what it really is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 check	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 check	aux
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 check	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	can	Experts						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it						tree rules

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