Test 12 · Caring for the environment

Jack reckons cutting forests only loses wood. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack, cutting · What happens: reckon, cut, lose · To what, where: forests, wood

This is test 12 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» of the world 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 loses	csubj
4	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cutting	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 loses	advmod
6	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	conj
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loses	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present	Jack		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	cut	gerund		forests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forest=Product
3	lose	present	cutting	wood	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Eventuality

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

No, it makes more space for animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 space	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	more space				for animals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent space=Product for animal=Beneficiary

Option 2

Yes, animals do not live in forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 forests	case
8	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	present · do-support	animals			forests			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 3

Yes, wood is all we lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 wood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 lose	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	wood					all, lose property	tree rules

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

No, it destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 destroys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 destroys	nsubj
4	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	habitats	habitat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 destroys	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 removes	cc
7	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 destroys	conj
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 removes	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 clean	nsubj
10	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trees	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	destroy	present	it	habitats	vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument habitat=Patient
2	remove	present		trees	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	clean	present	trees	the air	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient

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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