Test 3 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

«why'd a tiger come all the way from another country, we got loads of tigers here» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiger, we, best answer · What happens: come, get, be · To what, where: way, country, loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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	_	6 come	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tiger	det
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl:unmarked
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
16	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 got	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 tigers	case
18	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 loads	nmod
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 got	advmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 got	parataxis
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 What	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 answer	det
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 answer	amod
25	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 What	nsubj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	would	a tiger	all way	another country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
2	get in a quote	past	we	loads of tigers	here	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Foreign tigers are a different, bigger and much better kind of tiger than our own ones

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tigers	amod
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 different	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 different	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 different	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kind	cc
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 kind	amod
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 tiger	case
13	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 ones	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ones	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ones	amod
17	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 different	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foreign tigers					than our own ones; different property	tree rules
2	be		Foreign tigers not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A tiger from far away is less related to ours, keeping the family tree healthy

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 related	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 away	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 tiger	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 related	cop
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 related	advmod
8	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ours	case
10	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 related	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeping	punct
12	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 related	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeping	obj
16	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a tiger		ours			less, related property	tree rules
2	keep	gerund	a tiger not said here	the family tree				healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 3

It came for a holiday

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	It					for a holiday	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Our tigers are all too old to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tigers	nmod:poss
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Our tigers					all, old property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	Our tigers not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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