Test 8 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

«zoo animals always live longer, the end» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo animals, end · What happens: live, be · To what, where: end

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	5 live	punct
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 live	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 end	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	9 end	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	zoo animals	the end				always, long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the end					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

Yes, every zoo animal lives longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animal	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animal	compound
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	every zoo animal					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Many do, but elephants and orcas have often lived shorter lives in captivity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lived	cc
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 orcas	cc
7	orcas	orca	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 elephants	conj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lived	aux
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 lived	advmod
10	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 do	advcl
11	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 lives	amod
12	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 captivity	case
14	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Many						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present · perfect	elephants and orcas	shorter lives		captivity		often property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location

Option 3

No, all zoo animals die young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 die	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animals	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 die	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	all zoo animals					young property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

No, zoo and wild animals live exactly as long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 zoo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 zoo	punct
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 animals	cc
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 zoo	conj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	zoo and wild animals					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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