Exam question 2 · Conservation: how people help animals come back

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, reintroduce · To what, where: response, reintroduction, Yellowstone National Park, wolves

This is exam question 2 of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reintroduction	det
11	reintroduction	reintroduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wolves	case
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reintroduction	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Park	case
15	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Park	compound
16	National	National	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Park	amod
17	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the reintroduction of wolves	Yellowstone National Park		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reintroduction=Experiencer
4	reintroduce			wolves			nom reintroduction «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Wolves had never been absent from the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 absent	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 absent	cop
5	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 absent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Wolves						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle	Wolves not said here			the park		absent property	tree rules

Option 2

Three hundred wolves were bred in zoos and released in 1872

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 wolves	nummod
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bred	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bred	aux:pass
5	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoos	case
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bred	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 released	cc
9	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bred	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1872	case
11	1872	1872	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past · passive		hundred wolves		zoos			tree rules
2	release	participle				1872			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

Thirty-one wolves were translocated from Canada in 1995 and 1996

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Thirty	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wolves	nummod
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 translocated	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 translocated	aux:pass
6	translocated	translocat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 translocated	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1995	case
10	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 translocated	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 1996	cc
12	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 1995	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translocat	past · passive		one wolves		Canada		in 1995	tree rules

Option 4

Wolves were introduced from Spain and Sweden in 1989

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 introduced	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 introduced	aux:pass
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Spain	case
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 introduced	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Sweden	cc
7	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Spain	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1989	case
9	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 introduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	past · passive		Wolves		Spain and Sweden		in 1989	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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