Test 6 · ★★ · The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and froz…

Why keep frozen cells of animals that are still alive today?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, animals · What happens: keep, freeze, be · To what, where: frozen cells

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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	2 keep	advmod
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cells	amod
4	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cells	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 alive	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	acl:relcl
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	frozen cells of animals	today		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme
2	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	animals		still	alive 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

To sell them as ice cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sell	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 cream	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	compound
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		them = they				as ice cream	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So that if they become very rare, their cells can help breed more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	12 help	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 become	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 become	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 become	nsubj
5	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 help	advcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 rare	advmod
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cells	nmod:poss
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 help	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 help	aux
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 help	xcomp
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 breed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	present	they		rare property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	help	can	their cells			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	breed	infinitive	their cells not said here	more		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because frozen animals are easier to feed and look after in zoos than live ones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 easier	mark
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 easier	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easier	cop
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feed	mark
7	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 look	cc
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 feed	conj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 zoos	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 zoos	case
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 ones	case
14	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 easier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	frozen animals		than live ones; easy property	tree rules
3	feed	to-infinitive	frozen animals not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	look	infinitive	frozen animals not said here	after zoos		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Because living animals do not need help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 need	mark
2	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	living animals	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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