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Test 11 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers

«why's the zoo selling poo??» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo, answer · What happens: sell, be · To what, where: poo

This is test 11 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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

Sentence 1: «why's the zoo selling poo??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 selling	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 selling	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 selling	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selling	nsubj
6	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selling	obj
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	6 selling	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 selling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell in a quote	present · progressive	the zoo	poo					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=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.

Sentence 2: What is the answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is a joke for visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke				for visitors	tree rules

Option 2

It is used to paint signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 paint	mark
5	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paint	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		It					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	paint	to-infinitive		signs					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plant-eaters' dung makes good garden compost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaters	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Plant	punct
3	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dung	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 eaters	case
5	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 compost	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 compost	compound
9	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Plant eaters's dung	good garden compost					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compost=Product

Option 4

It is sold as tasty food for the other zoo animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 animals	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
10	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animals	compound
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · passive		It				as tasty food; for the other zoo animals	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for animal=Asset

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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