Test 2 · ★ · Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and heal…

Why would choice make training easier for an animal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: choice · What happens: make, train

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 112 «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 choice	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choice	aux
3	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	training	train	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 make	obj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 animal	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 easier	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	choice					easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	train	gerund							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Choice makes animals forget everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Choice	animals					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	animals not said here	everything					tree rules

Option 2

Animals hate being given choices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 choices	amod
5	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Animals	given choices					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus
2	give	gerund · passive							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It feels less stressed and is more willing to come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stressed	advmod
4	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feels	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 willing	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 willing	cop
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 willing	advmod
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 willing	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stress	participle		less property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present		willing property	tree rules
4	come back	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Choice means the animal never trains at all, so nothing is learned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trains	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 trains	advmod
6	trains	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 trains	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 learned	advmod
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 learned	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 learned	aux:pass
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Choice			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not train	present	the animal		all	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	learn	present · passive		nothing		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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