Test 6 · ★ · Endangered animals and extinction

Why does a long childhood make orangutans slow to recover?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: orangutans · What happens: do, make, recover · To what, where: long childhood, orangutans

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 childhood	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 childhood	amod
5	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 recover	mark
10	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slow	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a long childhood		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent childhood=Eventuality
2	make	present		orangutans	slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset orangutan=Product
3	recover	to-infinitive	orangutans not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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

Long childhoods make orangutans weak and lazy when they grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 childhoods	amod
2	childhoods	childhood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lazy	cc
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weak	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 grow	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Long childhoods	orangutans				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset orangutan=Product
2	grow up	present	childhoods = childhood						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Orangutans stop having babies after one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 having	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Orangutans						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	have	gerund	Orangutans not said here	babies			after one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each mother raises a baby for about 7 to 8 years, so few are born

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raises	nsubj
3	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raises	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 7	advmod
8	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 8	case
10	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 7	nmod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raises	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 few	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 few	advmod
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 raises	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 born	aux:pass
16	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 few	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	each mother	a baby			year		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	bear	present · passive	each mother not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 4

Babies never leave their mothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 leave	advmod
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mothers	nmod:poss
5	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	present	Babies	Babies's mothers					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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