Test 10 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

«beaver dams flood stuff, they're pests» What else do the dams do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beaver dams, dams · What happens: flood, be, do · To what, where: stuff, pests

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 flood	punct
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dams	compound
3	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flood	nsubj
4	flood	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flood	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pests	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pests	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pests	cop
9	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flood	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 pests	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 flood	obj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 What	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dams	det
15	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 What	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	flood in a quote	present	beaver dams	stuff	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	dams = dam	pests	tree rules
3	do	present · do-support	the dams		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Make rivers dry up completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obj
3	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 dry	compound:prt
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	rivers					tree rules
2	dry up	infinitive	rivers not said here					completely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing useful at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 useful	obl

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

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

Slow rivers, hold water in droughts and reduce flooding further down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rivers	amod
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rivers	punct
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 droughts	case
7	droughts	drought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reduce	cc
9	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	conj
10	flooding	flood	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reduce	xcomp
11	further	further	ADV	_	12 down	advmod
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 flooding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Slow rivers	water	droughts		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in drought=Location
2	reduce	present	Slow rivers not said here				vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal
3	flood	gerund	Slow rivers not said here			down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Poison the frogs and insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frogs	det
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Poison	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 insects	cc
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Poison	conj

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/t10/