--- title: Why might keeping healthy devils in a safe group help save the speci… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi… · tree and pragmatics description: Why might keeping healthy devils in a safe group help save the species? Test 11 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/) / t11 # Test 11 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr… Why might keeping healthy devils in a safe group help save the species? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** healthy devils · **What happens:** keep, help, save · **To what, where:** species This is test 11 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:t11:1 # text = Why might keeping healthy devils in a safe group help save the species? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 11 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | might | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | healthy devils in a safe group | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **save** | infinitive | healthy devils in a safe group *not said here* | the species | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The face cancer cannot spread to them there ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:t11:o1:1 # text = The face cancer cannot spread to them there 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **spread** | can | the face cancer | | them *= they* | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} They can learn to spin there ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:t11:o2:1 # text = They can learn to spin there 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | can | They | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **spin** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | | | there | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} They get much bigger and much stronger on the island ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:t11:o3:1 # text = They get much bigger and much stronger on the island 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | They | | | the island | | big *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on island=Source | ### Option 4 {#o4} They turn into thylacines there ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:t11:o4:1 # text = They turn into thylacines there 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 thylacines thylacine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | They | | | thylacines; there | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thylacine=Trajectory | **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. 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