Test 7 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

«dolphins died cos of the war, 100 percent, end of story» What is the careful answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dolphins · What happens: die, be · To what, where: cos, careful answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 374 «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	csubj
4	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cos	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 percent	punct
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 percent	nummod
10	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cos	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 story	case
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	dolphins	cos of the war and 100 percent			end of story		tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present		the careful answer					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

Dolphins died because the water got too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	advcl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Dolphins						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get	past	the water						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Scientists think noise, fires and pollution may be part of it and still argue how much

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fires	punct
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 noise	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pollution	cc
7	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	conj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 part	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 part	cop
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 part	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 argue	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 argue	advmod
15	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 argue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Scientists				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	may	noise and fires and pollution	part		of part	tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	present	Scientists not said here	much	still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic

Option 3

Scientists are certain it had nothing to do with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 certain	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 certain	cop
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 certain	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Scientists		certain property	tree rules
2	have	past	it	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive		nothing not said here	with it	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Dolphins only die of old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 age	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Dolphins				of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer

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