Test 10 · ★ · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

Why does the zoo keep a breeding group of Sumatran tigers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: keep · To what, where: breeding group

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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	5 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 zoo	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 group	det
7	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 group	compound
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tigers	case
10	Sumatran	Sumatran	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tigers	compound
11	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 group	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	the zoo	a breeding group of Sumatran tigers					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To make them bigger than other tigers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 tigers	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tigers	amod
7	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		them = they				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

As insurance if wild ones die out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 insurance	case
2	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	obl
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 die	mark
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 die	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	present	wild ones					as insurance	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

To sell their stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stripes	nmod:poss
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		their stripes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Theme

Option 4

Because they are too dangerous in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dangerous	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dangerous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wild	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			the wild		dangerous property	tree rules

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