Test 7 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

Why do park rangers ask visitors to keep noise down?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: park rangers · What happens: do, ask, keep down · To what, where: visitors, noise

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	advcl
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rangers	compound
4	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 keep	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	present	park rangers not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	park rangers		visitors	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep down not said to happen	to-infinitive	park rangers not said here	noise		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient

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

Sound makes the rivers flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rivers	det
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	flood	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sound	the rivers					tree rules
2	flood	present	the rivers not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← 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 3

Noise makes the trees and flowers grow much more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 slowly	advmod
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Noise	the trees					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
2	grow	present	flowers					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rangers need to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Rangers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rangers not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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