Test 8 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

«they found a NEW species?? surely there's nothing left to find» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, nothing · What happens: find, be, leave · To what, where: NEW species · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 true	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 species	det
5	NEW	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 species	amod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	??	??	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
8	surely	surely	ADV	_	10 's	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 's	expl
10	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 's	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nothing	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	they	a NEW species			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	nothing		there	surely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave in a quote	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find in a quote	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	present				true property	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

Only new dinosaurs are ever found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dinosaurs	advmod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dinosaurs	amod
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 found	advmod
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		new dinosaurs			ever		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2

No, the last new species was found long ago, before your grandparents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 species	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 species	amod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 species	amod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ago	advmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grandparents	punct
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 grandparents	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandparents	nmod:poss
14	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the last new species			before your grandparents	ago property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thousands are named every year, mostly small animals and plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animals	punct
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	9 animals	advmod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 named	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plants	cc
11	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		Thousands			year	small animals and plants obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

New species appear only in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 species	amod
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appear	nsubj
3	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 films	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 films	case
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	New species			films			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=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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