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Test 7 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

A pangolin needs a diet very like the anteater's. Why is it so hard to keep in zoos?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pangolin · What happens: need, be, keep · To what, where: diet, zoos

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: A pangolin needs a diet very like the anteater's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pangolin	det
2	pangolin	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 diet	det
5	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	9 anteater	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 anteater	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 anteater	det
9	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	parataxis
10	's	's	PART	_	9 anteater	case
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a pangolin	a diet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot diet=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why is it so hard to keep in zoos?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hard	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoos	case
9	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	pangolin					hard property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	pangolin not said here			zoos			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in zoo=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pangolins eat a whole cow a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pangolins	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cow	amod
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pangolins	a whole cow			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

Option 2

Pangolins need fresh snow every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pangolins	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Pangolins	fresh snow			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snow=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its special ant and termite diet is very hard to copy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ant	nmod:poss
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ant	amod
3	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 diet	cc
5	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 diet	compound
6	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ant	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 copy	mark
11	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its special ant and termite diet					hard property	tree rules
2	copy	to-infinitive	Its special ant and termite diet not said here						vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Pangolins only eat zoo visitors' lunches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pangolins	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visitors	compound
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lunches	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 visitors	case
7	lunches	lunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Pangolins	zoo visitors's lunches					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient

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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