Test 10 · The butterfly house

How could a butterfly farm help protect a rainforest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: butterfly farm · What happens: help, protect · To what, where: rainforest

This is test 10 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 help	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farm	det
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 farm	compound
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rainforest	det
9	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protect	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could	a butterfly farm						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	protect	infinitive	a butterfly farm not said here	a rainforest					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainforest=Beneficiary

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

Local people earn money by keeping the forest standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 earn	nsubj
3	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earn	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 keeping	mark
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 earn	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 standing	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	compound
9	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	present	Local people	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	keep	gerund	Local people not said here	the forest standing					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standing=Theme

Option 2

The farm scares away the loggers with clouds of butterflies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farm	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scares	nsubj
3	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 scares	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loggers	det
6	loggers	logger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scares	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scares	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 butterflies	case
10	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clouds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	the farm	the loggers				with clouds of butterflies; away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus logger=Experiencer
2	cloud			butterflies					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The butterflies plant new trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butterflies	det
2	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plant	nsubj
3	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	present	the butterflies	new trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

Butterflies eat the weeds that kill trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weeds	det
4	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kill	nsubj
6	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weeds	acl:relcl
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Butterflies	the weeds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient
2	kill	present	the weeds	trees					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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