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title: Oliver: "Are animals disappearing? Like, all of them?" Best answer? — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver: "Are animals disappearing? Like, all of them?" Best answer? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

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Oliver: "Are animals disappearing? Like, all of them?" Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oliver · **What happens:** be, disappear · **To what, where:** animals

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Oliver: "Are animals disappearing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:1
# text = Oliver: "Are animals disappearing?
1	Oliver	oliver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Like, all of them?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:2
# text = Like, all of them?"
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 3:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:3
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Many wild populations have fallen since 1970, though experts argue how much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:o1:1
# text = Many wild populations have fallen since 1970, though experts argue how much
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only dinosaurs have disappeared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:o2:1
# text = Only dinosaurs have disappeared
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Animals are doing better than ever everywhere, with more of every kind since 1970

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:o3:1
# text = Animals are doing better than ever everywhere, with more of every kind since 1970
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All animals have vanished

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t9:o4:1
# text = All animals have vanished
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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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