Test 6 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…
«saigas died out in 2015, 200,000 gone» What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: saigas, truth · What happens: die out, be
This is test 6 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 died | punct |
| 2 | saigas | saiga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 died | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 2015 | case |
| 6 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 died | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 8 | 200,000 | 200000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 died | parataxis |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 gone | advcl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 What | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 What | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out in a quote | past | saigas | in 2015 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2015=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the truth | 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
They all left Kazakhstan and moved to Ukraine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 moved | cc |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Ukraine | case |
| 8 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | They | Kazakhstan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kazakhstan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | past | They not said here | Ukraine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ukraine=Result |
Option 2
Yes, they are extinct and none are left anywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 extinct | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 extinct | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 extinct | cop |
| 5 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 none | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 extinct | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 extinct | parataxis |
| 10 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | extinct property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | anywhere property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 3
No, none died at all, the whole story was made up by news reporters
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 died | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 died | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 made | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 reporters | case |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reporters | compound |
| 16 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | none | all | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make up | past · passive | news reporters | the whole story | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 200,000 died, but with protection they grew to over a million
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 200,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 200,000 | 200000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 protection | case |
| 7 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 million | case |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 million | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 million | det |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | 200,000 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | they | with protection; to a million | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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