Test 12 · ★★ · Migration: the great journeys

What else might make a long journey harder for migrating animals today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make, migrate · To what, where: animals

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 make	obj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 journey	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 journey	amod
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harder	nsubj
8	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 migrating	mark
10	migrating	migrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 harder	advcl
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 migrating	obj
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might					today	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
2	migrate	gerund		animals					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dams, roads, buildings and loss of resting places along the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roads	punct
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dams	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buildings	punct
5	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dams	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loss	cc
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buildings	conj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 resting	mark
9	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 loss	acl
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 resting	obj
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund	loss not said here	places		the way			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent place=Theme along way=Location

Option 2

Too many maps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maps	amod
3	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Better weather than before, so they get lazy and forget to set off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 weather	amod
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 before	case
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 weather	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forget	cc
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 get	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 set	mark
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 forget	xcomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	present	Better weather	lazy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	forget	infinitive	Better weather not said here		tree rules
3	not set off	to-infinitive	Better weather not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Fewer predators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 predators	amod
2	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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