Test 5 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature
A park ranger in Canada asks visitors to be quiet near a lake. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: park ranger · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: visitors, lake
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: A park ranger in Canada asks visitors to be quiet near a lake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ranger | det |
| 2 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranger | compound |
| 3 | ranger | ranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Canada | case |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ranger | nmod |
| 6 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asks | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 quiet | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quiet | cop |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 asks | xcomp |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quiet | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a park ranger in Canada | visitors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | a park ranger in Canada not said here | a lake | quiet 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.
Sentence 2: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The fish will jump right out of the water if they hear you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | aux |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | future | the fish | the water | right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hear a condition, not said to happen | present | they | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 2
Loud sound makes the lake water become polluted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sound | amod |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | polluted | pollute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 makes | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Loud sound | the lake water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | present | the lake water not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pollute | participle | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Noise frightens animals and disturbs other visitors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 frightens | nsubj |
| 2 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 frightens | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 disturbs | cc |
| 5 | disturbs | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightens | conj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 visitors | amod |
| 7 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disturbs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present | Noise | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | disturb | present | Noise not said here | other visitors | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visitor=Experiencer |
Option 4
Loud voices make it rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 voices | amod |
| 2 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Loud voices | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary rain=Product |
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