Test 7 · ★★ · The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mo…

«otters are extinct in england, my teacher said like 30 years ago» What is true now?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: otters, teacher, extinct · What happens: be, say · To what, where: england · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 403 «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 extinct	punct
2	otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 extinct	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	cop
4	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 true	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 england	case
6	england	england	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 extinct	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teacher	nmod:poss
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	parataxis
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 extinct	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 true	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	otters	england		extinct property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my teacher			ago property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	extinct		now	true property	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

They are extinct in the wild and now only live in zoos and wildlife parks

The tree, 15 words

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	3 extinct	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 extinct	cop
3	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wild	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wild	det
6	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extinct	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 live	cc
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 live	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 extinct	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 zoos	case
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 parks	cc
14	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parks	compound
15	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 zoos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			the wild		extinct property	tree rules
2	live	present	They not said here			zoos and wildlife parks	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

Option 2

They live only in the sea now, never in rivers

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	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sea	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 live	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rivers	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 rivers	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 rivers	case
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They			the sea	now	in rivers	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They nearly vanished, but came back and have been reported in every county

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	3 vanished	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 vanished	advmod
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vanished	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reported	cc
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reported	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 reported	aux:pass
11	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 vanished	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 county	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 county	det
14	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reported	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They		nearly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	They not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	report	present · perfect · passive	They not said here	every county		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They never lived in England at all, only in Scotland

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	3 lived	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Scotland	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 Scotland	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Scotland	case
11	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	past	They			England		at all; in Scotland	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location

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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