Test 9 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…

Why would a deep-digging animal like a boar carry more radiation than a grazing deer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: digging animal · What happens: dig, carry · To what, where: more radiation

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 carry	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 digging	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct
6	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 boar	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boar	det
10	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nmod
11	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 radiation	amod
13	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	obj
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 deer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deer	det
16	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deer	compound
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund							vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	would	a digging animal like a boar	more radiation				than a grazing deer	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=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

It eats underground fungi that pile up caesium

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fungi	amod
4	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pile	nsubj
6	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fungi	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pile	compound:prt
8	caesium	caesium	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pile	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It	underground fungi					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=Patient
2	pile up	present	underground fungi	caesium					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme caesium=Destination

Option 2

Deer wear thicker fur that keeps the radiation out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fur	amod
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wear	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fur	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 radiation	det
8	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 keeps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	Deer	thicker fur					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fur=Source
2	keep out	present	thicker fur	the radiation					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=Theme

Option 3

Boar drink more rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rain	amod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Boar	more rain					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient

Option 4

Boar are born radioactive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Boar				radioactive property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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