Test 2 · ★★ · The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, th…

Why did a bird with no enemies die out so fast once people came?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: enemies, people · What happens: do, die out, come · To what, where: bird

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 401 «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 die	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 enemies	det
7	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 die	nsubj
8	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 die	compound:prt
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 die	advmod
12	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 die	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		a bird		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	die out	present	no enemies		fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	come	past	people			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

It caught a cold from the sailors and every single one of them died of it within a year

The tree, 19 words

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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sailors	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailors	det
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 one	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 died	obl
17	within	within	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	It	a cold		the sailors			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from sailor=Source
2	die	past	every single one of sailors				year	of cold	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of it=Causer

Option 2

The island sank into the sea soon after the sailors came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sank	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sailors	det
10	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the island			the sea		soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	the sailors						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It did not know to run, and people, rats, pigs and cats ate it and its eggs

The tree, 17 words

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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ate	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rats	punct
11	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pigs	punct
13	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cats	cc
15	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	conj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ate	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eggs	cc
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eggs	nmod:poss
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	It		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	run	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	past	people and rats and pigs and cats	it	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It flew away to another island and got lost on the way

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lost	cc
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	It					to another island result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to island=Result
2	lose	past · passive				the way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

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