Test 8 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

Why might scientists keep a healthy group of Tasmanian devils on a separate island?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: keep · To what, where: healthy group

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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 keep	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 group	amod
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 devils	case
9	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 devils	amod
10	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 island	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 island	det
13	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	amod
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 devils	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might	scientists	a healthy group of Tasmanian devils on a separate island					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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

Because devils like islands better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 better	mark
2	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	obl:unmarked
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 islands	case
4	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 devils	nmod
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

As insurance, in case the face tumour disease kills the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 insurance	case
2	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kills	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 insurance	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 case	case
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kills	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disease	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disease	compound
8	tumour	tumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disease	compound
9	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kills	nsubj
10	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	the face tumour disease	the rest		case		as insurance	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rest=Duration as insurance=Attribute

Option 3

To stop them eating all the baby kangaroos on the mainland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kangaroos	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kangaroos	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kangaroos	compound
8	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 mainland	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mainland	det
11	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kangaroos	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		them = they					tree rules
2	eat	gerund		all baby kangaroos		the mainland			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kangaroo=Patient

Option 4

To breed them into dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 breed	mark
2	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breed	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	to-infinitive		them = they				into dogs	tree rules

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