Test 1 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

«my mate says lions in zoos get a massive steak every single day» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, lions · What happens: say, get, be · To what, where: massive steak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoos	case
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lions	nmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 steak	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 steak	amod
11	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present	lions in zoos	a massive steak	day		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 · ← Mova's choice

Zoo lions only eat vegetables now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lions	compound
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Zoo lions	vegetables			now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient

Option 2

Lions are fed once a year in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fed	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive		Lions			winter	once property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many zoos give big cats fast days, because wild cats do not eat daily

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	iobj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 give	advmod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cats	amod
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eat	advmod
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
15	daily	daily	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Many zoos		days			fast property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	not eat	present · do-support	wild cats					daily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, because a lion that misses even one meal will soon fall ill and die

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 fall	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 misses	nsubj
7	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lion	acl:relcl
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 meal	nummod
10	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 misses	obj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fall	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fall	advmod
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fall	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 die	cc
16	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	present	a lion	one meal		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
2	fall	future	a lion		ill, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	a lion not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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