Test 11 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

Why do whales take a long time to recover their numbers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: whales · What happens: take, recover · To what, where: numbers

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 recover	mark
9	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 numbers	nmod:poss
11	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 recover	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	whales				time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recover	to-infinitive	whales not said here	whales's numbers					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

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

Whales are mostly male, with few females

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 male	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 male	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 male	advmod
4	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 females	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 females	case
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 females	amod
8	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 male	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Whales					with few females; male, mostly property	tree rules

Option 2

Whales need to learn new songs first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 learn	mark
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 songs	amod
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 learn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Whales						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Whales not said here	new songs				first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic

Option 3

Whales only breed once in their life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 breed	advmod
3	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 breed	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	present	Whales			Whales's life		once property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They live long and have few calves

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	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 live	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calves	amod
7	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	They not said here	few calves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient

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