Test 9 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…
Oliver: "Are animals disappearing? Like, all of them?" Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oliver · What happens: be, disappear · To what, where: animals
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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: Oliver: "Are animals disappearing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oliver | oliver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disappearing | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
| 4 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disappearing | nsubj |
| 6 | disappearing | disappear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappearing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | animals | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disappear in a quote | gerund | Oliver | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Like, all of them?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many wild populations have fallen since 1970, though experts argue how much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 populations | amod |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 populations | amod |
| 3 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 1970 | case |
| 7 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 fallen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 argue | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 argue | mark |
| 10 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 argue | nsubj |
| 11 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | parataxis |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 argue | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect | Many wild populations | since 1970 | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | experts | much | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
Option 2
Only dinosaurs have disappeared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 dinosaurs | advmod |
| 2 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappeared | aux |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present · perfect | dinosaurs | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Animals are doing better than ever everywhere, with more of every kind since 1970
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doing | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 doing | aux |
| 3 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 doing | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 everywhere | mark |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 everywhere | advmod |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 better | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 kind | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doing | conj |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 1970 | case |
| 15 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | Animals | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
All animals have vanished
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | aux |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present · perfect | all animals | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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