Test 2 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers

«zoo keepers just feed the cute ones and chill, easy job» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo keepers · What happens: feed, be · To what, where: cute ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 feed	punct
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keepers	compound
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 feed	advmod
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chill	cc
10	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ones	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 job	punct
12	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 job	amod
13	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ones	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 feed	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	present	zoo keepers	the cute ones and chill and easy job					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

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

No, keepers only sell tickets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 keepers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
5	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	keepers	tickets					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They clean, feed, check health and write notes every day

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 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct
4	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clean	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 check	punct
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clean	conj
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 check	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 write	cc
9	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clean	conj
10	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 write	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	clean	present	They			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	feed	present	They not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	check	infinitive	They not said here	health		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme
4	write	present	They not said here	notes	day	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

Option 3

Yes, feeding is the only job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 job	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 job	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 job	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 job	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 job	amod
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, the animals clean their own homes, so keepers just relax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	nsubj
5	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homes	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 homes	amod
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 relax	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 relax	advmod
11	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 relax	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 relax	advmod
13	relax	relax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	the animals	animals's own homes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	relax	present	keepers						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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