Test 7 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

What does the Chornobyl story suggest about people and nature?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chornobyl story · What happens: suggest

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suggest	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggest	nsubj
6	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 suggest	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nature	cc
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 people	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	the Chornobyl story					about people and nature	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Radiation makes animals grow to giant size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 size	case
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Radiation						tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	animals					to giant size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

When people leave, many wild animals return even with radiation still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 leave	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 return	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 return	nsubj
8	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 radiation	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 radiation	case
11	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	obj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 return	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	people						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	present	many wild animals	radiation					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=Theme

Option 3

Nature never comes back after people leave, even in a thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 leave	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 years	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 years	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	present	Nature				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	present	people						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Animals cannot live anywhere near people ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 live	advmod
6	near	near	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	Animals				ever	near people; anywhere property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near people=Location

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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