Test 11 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

What would a steppe need before a big grazer like the saiga could return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: steppe need · What happens: return

This is test 11 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 return	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 return	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 need	det
4	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	compound
5	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	nsubj
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 grazer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grazer	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grazer	amod
9	grazer	grazer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 saiga	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saiga	det
12	saiga	saiga	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grazer	nmod
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 return	aux
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 return	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	could	a steppe need before a big grazer like the saiga						vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Big protected grassland with no hunting or ploughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grassland	amod
2	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grassland	amod
3	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hunting	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hunting	det
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grassland	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 ploughing	cc
8	ploughing	ploughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	participle							vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

More wheat fields and roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fields	amod
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fields	compound
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roads	cc
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fields	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Tall forests to hide in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forests	amod
2	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forests	acl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Lots of zoos close by, so sick saigas can be taken in quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 zoos	case
3	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 zoos	amod
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 close	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saigas	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sick	advmod
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saigas	amod
9	saigas	saiga	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	conj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 taken	aux:pass
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 taken	compound:prt
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in	can · passive		Lots of zoos and sick saigas				quickly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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