Test 8 · ★ · Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian…

Why is a lynx almost never seen even where it lives?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lynx · What happens: not be, live · To what, where: lynx

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 372 «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 seen	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lynx	det
4	lynx	lynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj:pass
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 seen	advmod
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lives	advcl
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 lives	advmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lives	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lives	nsubj
11	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present · passive		a lynx				almost, see property	tree rules
2	live	present	lynx						vn exist-47.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

It only comes out of its den once a year, in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 den	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 den	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 den	nmod:poss
7	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 comes	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 once	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spring	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spring	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	It	its den			spring	once property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient den=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is rare, shy and hunts quietly in thick forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rare	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	cop
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shy	punct
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rare	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hunts	cc
7	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	conj
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 hunts	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forest	amod
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		rare property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	hunt	present		thick forest	quietly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location

Option 3

It lives only in deep caves high up in the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 caves	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 caves	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caves	amod
6	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	2 lives	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			deep caves		in the mountains	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 4

Its fur makes it completely invisible all summer long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fur	nmod:poss
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 invisible	advmod
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 summer	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Its fur	it			summer	invisible, long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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