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# Test 12 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

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«wildlife down 73%, so 3 out of 4 animals are dead» Why should you read numbers in the news carefully?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wildlife, you · **What happens:** be, read · **To what, where:** numbers, news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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/296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t12:1
# text = «wildlife down 73%, so 3 out of 4 animals are dead» Why should you read numbers in the news carefully?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	73	73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
20	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wildlife |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | should | you | numbers |  | the news |  | carefully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Because 73 is bigger than 100

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t12:o1:1
# text = Because 73 is bigger than 100
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	2	case	_	_
2	73	73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | because 73; than 100; big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Because news numbers are always made up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t12:o2:1
# text = Because news numbers are always made up
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | present · passive |  | news numbers |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It is an average of population changes, not a count of dead animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t12:o3:1
# text = It is an average of population changes, not a count of dead animals
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a average and a count of dead animals |  |  |  | of population changes | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because wild animals cannot be counted at all, so every number is a guess

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t12:o4:1
# text = Because wild animals cannot be counted at all, so every number is a guess
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | can · passive |  | wild animals |  | all |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | every number | a guess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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