Test 6 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

«axolotls are everywhere in pet shops, how can they be endangered» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: axolotls, pet shops · What happens: be · To what, where: pet shops · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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	_	2 axolotls	punct
2	axolotls	axolotl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shops	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shops	cop
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 shops	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shops	case
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shops	compound
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 endangered	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 endangered	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 endangered	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 endangered	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 endangered	cop
13	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shops	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 endangered	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shops	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	axolotls	pet shops	everywhere property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	can	axolotls = axolotl		endangered property	tree rules
3	is	present	pet shops		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

Pet ones are a different animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ones	compound
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animal	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pet ones	a different animal					tree rules

Option 2

They are not endangered at all, there are millions of them in the lakes

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 endangered	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 endangered	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 endangered	advmod
4	endangered	endanger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 endangered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 endangered	conj
10	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 millions	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lakes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lakes	det
15	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not endanger	present · passive		They		all			tree rules
2	does	present	millions of them			the lakes; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location

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

Wild ones are almost gone, even though many live in homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 live	mark
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 live	nsubj
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 homes	case
12	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild ones					almost, gone property	tree rules
2	live	present	many			homes			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location

Option 4

Only pink ones are endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 ones	advmod
2	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 endangered	nsubj
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

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

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