Test 6 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…

How could two careful studies of the zone seem to disagree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: two careful studies · What happens: seem, disagree, study · To what, where: zone

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 seem	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seem	aux
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 studies	nummod
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 studies	amod
5	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seem	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 zone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zone	det
8	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 studies	nmod
9	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 disagree	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 disagree	mark
11	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 disagree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	seem	could	two careful studies of the zone		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	disagree	to-infinitive			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	study			the zone	nom study «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Radiation changes the numbers on cameras

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radiation	Radiation	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 numbers	det
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changes	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 cameras	case
6	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 numbers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Radiation	the numbers		cameras			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient

Option 2

Animals hide from one team only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 team	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 team	nummod
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Animals			one team			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from team=Beneficiary

Option 3

One of the scientists must be lying about what he saw there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 lying	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 scientists	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scientists	det
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lying	aux
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lying	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	must · progressive	One of the scientists						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about what=Location
2	see	past	he			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One looks at the worst spots, the other at the whole zone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 spots	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spots	det
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 spots	amod
6	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 other	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spots	amod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 zone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 zone	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 zone	amod
13	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 other	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	One					at the worst spots	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme

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