Test 6 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…

Why might city coyotes be more active at night than country ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city coyotes · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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	7 active	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 active	aux
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coyotes	compound
4	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 active	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 active	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 active	advmod
7	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 active	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 ones	case
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ones	compound
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 active	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 active	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	city coyotes				night	than country ones; active 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

City lights make them sleepy in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	compound
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	City lights	them = they			day	sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2

Coyotes cannot see anything at all in bright daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 see	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 daylight	case
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daylight	amod
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Coyotes	anything		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There are fewer people and cars around at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cars	cc
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 people	conj
7	around	around	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	fewer people and cars			there	night	around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Night is warmer in cities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warmer	cop
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 cities	case
5	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warmer	obl

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

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