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Test 11 · ★★ · Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures

A cattle medicine is banned in India and vultures slowly return. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vultures · What happens: ban, return, be · To what, where: cattle medicine, India

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 324 «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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: A cattle medicine is banned in India and vultures slowly return.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 medicine	det
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 medicine	compound
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 India	case
7	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
9	vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 return	nsubj
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 return	advmod
11	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 banned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		a cattle medicine		India			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	return	present	vultures					slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Vultures never cared about the medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cared	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 cared	advmod
3	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 medicine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 medicine	det
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past	Vultures					about the medicine	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about medicine=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Vultures returned only because people began feeding them bread every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 returned	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 began	mark
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	advcl
7	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 began	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feeding	obj
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeding	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeding	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Vultures						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	people						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feed	gerund	people not said here	people			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One medicine shows how harming one animal can cause trouble for people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 medicine	nummod
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cause	advmod
5	harming	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cause	csubj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 animal	nummod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harming	obj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cause	aux
9	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shows	ccomp
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	One medicine						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	harm	gerund		one animal					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
3	cause	can	harming	trouble				for people	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient

Option 4

The ban made cattle sick instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ban	det
2	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the ban	cattle				instead, sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cattle=Product

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