Test 7 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

Why do people in New Zealand keep dogs on leads in kiwi areas?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: keep · To what, where: dogs, leads

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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	7 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Zealand	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	flat
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 leads	case
10	leads	lead	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 areas	case
12	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 areas	compound
13	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	people in New Zealand	dogs		leads		in kiwi areas	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location

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

Kiwi only live in dog parks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 parks	case
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parks	compound
6	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Kiwi			dog parks			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location

Option 2

Kiwi attack dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 attack	compound
2	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Dogs are afraid of kiwi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 kiwi	case
5	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dogs					of kiwi; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kiwi are endangered and dogs can kill them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 endangered	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 endangered	cop
3	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kill	cc
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 endangered	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kiwi					endangered property	tree rules
2	kill	can	dogs	them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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