Test 10 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

Why are walruses hardly ever kept in zoos?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep · To what, where: walruses, zoos

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kept	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux:pass
3	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	nsubj:pass
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 zoos	case
8	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		walruses		zoos	ever	hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

They are too small to find in a tank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					small property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here			a tank			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They eat only penguins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 penguins	advmod
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	penguins					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient

Option 3

They are far too shy to be seen by visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shy	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 shy	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 shy	advmod
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 seen	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shy	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 visitors	case
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					far, shy property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	visitors						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are huge, need cold seas and lots of clams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 huge	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	cop
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 huge	conj
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seas	amod
7	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lots	cc
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seas	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 clams	case
11	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					huge property	tree rules
2	need	present	They not said here	cold seas and lots of clams					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sea=Theme

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