Test 8 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

Why do rangers remove rats and stoats from kakapo islands?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: rangers · What happens: remove · To what, where: rats, kakapo islands

This is test 8 · ★ 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 remove	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remove	aux
3	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remove	nsubj
4	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remove	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stoats	cc
7	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rats	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 islands	case
9	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 islands	compound
10	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remove	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present · do-support	rangers	rats and stoats		kakapo islands			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rat=Theme from island=Source

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

Rats steal kakapo food from trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	nsubj
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	compound
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 trees	case
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	Rats	kakapo food		trees			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tree=Source

Option 2

Stoats sing too loudly at night and keep the kakapos awake until dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sing	nsubj
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loudly	advmod
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sing	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keep	cc
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sing	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kakapos	det
10	kakapos	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
11	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kakapos	amod
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Stoats				night	loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	Stoats not said here	the kakapos			dawn		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kakapo=Theme

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

Kakapos nest on the ground, so these predators eat eggs and chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kakapos	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nest	nsubj
2	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nest	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 eat	advmod
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 predators	det
9	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	nsubj
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 nest	conj
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chicks	cc
13	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eggs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	present	Kakapos			the ground			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	this predators	eggs and chicks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4

Rats and stoats are endangered and need moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 endangered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stoats	cc
3	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 endangered	cop
5	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 endangered	conj
8	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rats and stoats	endangered property	tree rules
2	need	present	Rats and stoats not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	move not said to happen	gerund	Rats and stoats not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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