Test 6 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

«why'd they use kites from Spain, not English ones» What is the best reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: use, be · To what, where: kites, Spain, best reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 use	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 use	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Spain	case
8	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kites	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 ones	advmod
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kites	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 reason	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 reason	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reason	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 reason	amod
18	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use in a quote	present	they	kites		Spain			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kite=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	is a	present		the best reason					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 · ✓ the right answer

Almost none were left in England, and Spanish ones are the same species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 none	advmod
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 left	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 species	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 species	cc
9	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 species	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 species	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 species	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 species	amod
14	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		none		England			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in england=Location
2	is a	present	Spanish ones	the same species					tree rules

Option 2

Spanish kites are a bigger and better species that hunts more rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kites	amod
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 species	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 species	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 species	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 species	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 better	cc
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj
8	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hunts	nsubj
10	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 species	acl:relcl
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 rabbits	amod
12	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spanish kites	a bigger species					tree rules
2	hunt	present	a bigger species	more rabbits					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme

Option 3

Spain wanted to get rid of its kites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 kites	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kites	nmod:poss
8	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	Spain		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Spain not said here	rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	kite		its = it		nom kite «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

English kites cannot fly over motorways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kites	amod
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	advmod
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 motorways	case
7	motorways	motorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	English kites			motorways			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over motorway=Location

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