Test 8 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…

«they just stood there filming while the baby elephant was stuck, cold or what» Why do crews usually not help?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, baby elephant, crews · What happens: stand, film, be, not help

This is test 8 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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	_	4 stood	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
6	filming	film	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stood	advcl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 stuck	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elephant	compound
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	cop
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 help	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stuck	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stuck	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 stuck	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 help	advmod
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
20	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 help	nsubj
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	23 help	advmod
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 filming	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	past	they	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	film in a quote	gerund	they not said here			tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	the baby elephant		stuck property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		the baby elephant not said here			tree rules
5	not help	present · do-support	crews		usually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Elephants always get out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	present	Elephants					alone, always, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were too far away to see it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 away	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					away, far property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	They not said here	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Crews are not allowed to touch anything except their cameras and tripods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 touch	obj
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 cameras	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cameras	nmod:poss
10	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 anything	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tripods	cc
12	tripods	tripod	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cameras	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Crews					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	touch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Crews not said here	anything				except Crews's cameras and tripods	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their rule is not to change what happens, though people argue about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rule	nmod:poss
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 change	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happens	nsubj
8	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 argue	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 argue	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 argue	nsubj
12	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Their rule	change property	tree rules
2	happen	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	present	people	about rule	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
4	rule		Their = they		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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