Test 5 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

«just bung the gorilla to sleep every time, simpler» Why do vets prefer training?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vets · What happens: sleep, prefer · To what, where: training

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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	_	3 bung	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 bung	advmod
3	bung	bung	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gorilla	det
5	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bung	appos
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gorilla	acl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 simpler	punct
11	simpler	simple	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 time	amod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 simpler	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 prefer	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 prefer	aux
15	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 prefer	nsubj
16	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 time	acl:relcl
17	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prefer	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive					time		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prefer	present · do-support	vets	training					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer training=Stimulus

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

Training is cheaper than food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Training					than food; cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

Gorillas enjoy needles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enjoy	nsubj
2	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enjoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	present	Gorillas	needles					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer needle=Stimulus

Option 3

Sleep medicine never works on gorillas because they are too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 medicine	compound
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 gorillas	case
6	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 works	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 strong	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 strong	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 strong	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 strong	advmod
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 works	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present	Sleep medicine					on gorillas	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on gorilla=Theme
2	is	present	gorillas = gorilla					strong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Training with rewards avoids sleep medicine, which is safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avoids	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 rewards	case
3	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Training	nmod
4	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	compound
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 avoids	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safer	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 safer	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safer	cop
10	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 medicine	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	Training with rewards	sleep medicine					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent medicine=Location
2	is	present	sleep medicine					safe property	tree rules

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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