Exam question 3 · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the longevity of animals kept in zoological gardens.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, keep · To what, where: response, longevity, animals, zoological gardens

This is exam question 3 of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

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

All live considerably shorter lives in captivity

Option 2

The longevity of every species is identical in captivity and in the wild

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many live longer than in the wild, although elephants and orcas have often lived shorter lives in captivity

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

All live longer in captivity without exception

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