Test 2 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

«poison in tiny water bugs can't hurt a massive eagle» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: poison · What happens: not hurt, be · To what, where: massive eagle

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	9 hurt	punct
2	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 bugs	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bugs	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bugs	compound
6	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poison	nmod
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hurt	advmod
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eagle	det
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eagle	amod
12	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hurt	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt in a quote	can	poison in tiny water bugs	a massive eagle					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Patient
2	is	present						right property	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

Only tiny animals can be poisoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 animals	advmod
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poisoned	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 poisoned	aux:pass
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	can · passive		tiny animals					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It builds up in the fish that eat the bugs, then in the eagles

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 builds	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 builds	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bugs	det
10	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eagles	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 eagles	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 eagles	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eagles	det
15	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 builds	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present	It					in the fish	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	eat	present	the fish	the bugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

Option 3

Eagles only eat clean food from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Eagles	clean food		the sky			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

It vanishes before it reaches anything as big as an eagle or a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanishes	nsubj
2	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 reaches	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reaches	nsubj
5	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 vanishes	advcl
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 reaches	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anything	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 eagle	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 bear	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bear	det
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eagle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	present	It						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	present	it	anything					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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