Test 11 · ★★ · The penguin pool

How could people's fishing far away affect penguins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: fish

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 99 «The penguin pool» 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	7 away	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 away	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fishing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 people	case
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	nsubj
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
8	affect	affect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 penguins	compound
9	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish		people						nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

It would not affect them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 affect	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 affect	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 affect	advmod
4	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 affect	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 affect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	would	It	them = they		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2

Penguins would get caught in sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 sunshine	case
6	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · passive		Penguins		sunshine			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Penguins would grow too fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fat	advmod
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Penguins					fat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer fish means less food for penguin chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 chicks	case
7	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chicks	compound
8	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Fewer fish	less food				for penguin chicks	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot food=Theme for chick=Attribute

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