Test 4 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

«a condor never touched a bullet, so how'd it get poisoned» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condor · What happens: not touch, poison, be · To what, where: bullet, condor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	5 touched	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 condor	det
3	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touched	advmod
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bullet	det
7	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poisoned	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 poisoned	advmod
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 poisoned	advmod
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 poisoned	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 poisoned	nsubj:pass
13	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 poisoned	aux:pass
14	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 touched	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 poisoned	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poisoned	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 touched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not touch in a quote	past	a condor	a bullet		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bullet=Co-Theme
2	poison in a quote	would · passive		condor		tree rules
3	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 · ← Mova's choice

Condors cannot be poisoned at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisoned	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poisoned	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 poisoned	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 poisoned	aux:pass
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 poisoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not poison	can · passive		Condors		all			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It flew through the gun smoke

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 smoke	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smoke	det
5	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	compound
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	It			the gun smoke			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through smoke=Location

Option 3

It drank from a river near a shooting range

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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	9 range	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 range	det
8	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 range	compound
9	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	It			a river		near a shooting range	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It ate carcasses with lead bullets inside

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bullets	case
5	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bullets	compound
6	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obl
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	carcasses				with lead bullets; inside property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient

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