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Test 6 · Caring for the environment

A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park. What is the main harm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many birds, main harm · What happens: nest, drain, build, be · To what, where: wetland, car park

This is test 6 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

Sentence 1: A wetland where many birds nest is drained to build a car park.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wetland	det
2	wetland	wetland	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drained	nsubj:pass
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 nest	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nest	nsubj
6	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wetland	acl:relcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drained	aux:pass
8	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 build	mark
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drained	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 park	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 park	compound
13	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	present	many birds						vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drain	present · passive		a wetland					tree rules
3	build	to-infinitive		a car park					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset park=Product

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: What is the main harm?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harm	det
4	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harm	amod
5	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the main harm						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The air becomes cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the air					clean property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The birds get more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the birds	more food					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The birds lose their habitat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 habitat	nmod:poss
5	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the birds	birds's habitat					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Eventuality

Option 4

The car park will be too wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 park	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 park	compound
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wet	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	the car park					wet property	tree rules

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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