Test 10 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

«squirrels are squirrels, who cares if grey ones took over» Why do people care?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrels, grey ones, people · What happens: be, care, take over · To what, where: squirrels

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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	_	4 squirrels	punct
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squirrels	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squirrels	cop
4	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cares	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cares	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cares	nsubj
7	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 took	mark
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cares	ccomp
12	over	over	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 care	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 care	aux
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 care	nsubj
17	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cares	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cares	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	squirrels	squirrels	tree rules
2	care in a quote	present	squirrels		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	take over a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	grey ones		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	care	present · do-support	people		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Greys carry squirrelpox, which kills native red squirrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greys	grey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	squirrelpox	squirrelpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kills	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kills	nsubj
6	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 squirrelpox	acl:relcl
7	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squirrels	amod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squirrels	amod
9	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Greys	squirrelpox					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrelpox=Theme
2	kill	present	squirrelpox	native red squirrels					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme

Option 2

Greys are much better for the woods because they plant more trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greys	grey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 plant	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 plant	nsubj
10	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	advcl
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Greys					for the woods; good property	tree rules
2	plant	present	Greys = grey	more trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 3

Red squirrels are pests from America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 squirrels	amod
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pests	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pests	cop
4	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 America	case
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Red squirrels	pests		America			tree rules

Option 4

Grey squirrels are endangered too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 squirrels	amod
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 endangered	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 endangered	cop
4	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 endangered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grey squirrels					endangered property	tree rules

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