Test 9 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers

«my nan says zoo keepers are just cleaners» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, zoo keepers · What happens: say, be · To what, where: cleaners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keepers	compound
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cleaners	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cleaners	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 cleaners	advmod
9	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cleaners	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	zoo keepers	cleaners		tree rules
3	is	present			right 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 · ✓ the right answer

Cleaning is a big part, but they also check health, feed and train

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 check	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 check	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 check	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 check	advmod
10	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	parataxis
11	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 check	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feed	punct
13	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 health	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 train	cc
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 health	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cleaning	a big part					tree rules
2	check	present	they	health and feed and train					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme

Option 2

Yes, that is all they do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, keepers never clean anything, because the zoo pays other cleaners

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	11 pays	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 clean	advmod
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anything	amod
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 keepers	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pays	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 pays	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 zoo	det
10	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pays	nsubj
11	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cleaners	amod
13	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	keepers	other cleaners					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaner=Asset

Option 4

No, robots do the cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cleaning	det
6	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	robots	the cleaning					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality

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