Test 8 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

«a zoo breeds meerkats for babies on the news, that's conservation right» What is a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo, conservation · What happens: breed, be · To what, where: meerkats, conservation, fair answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	4 breeds	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 zoo	det
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breeds	nsubj
4	breeds	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breeds	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 babies	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meerkats	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 news	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 news	det
10	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 babies	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 conservation	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 conservation	det
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 conservation	cop
14	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breeds	obl
15	right	right	ADV	_	21 answer	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conservation	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 breeds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	breed in a quote	present	a zoo	meerkats	for babies on the news	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		that conservation		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present	that conservation	a fair answer	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

No, zoos never breed any animal at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 breed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breed	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 breed	advmod
5	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breed	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 breed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not breed	present	zoos	any animal		all			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not always; good breeding helps rare animals, but meerkats are not endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 always	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 helps	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 always	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breeding	amod
5	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helps	nsubj
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 helps	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 endangered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 endangered	cc
11	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 endangered	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 endangered	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 endangered	advmod
14	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 helps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	good breeding		rare animals			always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary
2	not is	present	meerkats					endangered property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the news is how species are saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 species	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 news	det
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 species	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 species	cop
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 species	advmod
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saved	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saved	aux:pass
9	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the news	species					tree rules
2	save	present · passive		species					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Yes, every baby born at a zoo helps save its species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helps	nsubj
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 baby	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 zoo	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	obl
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 species	nmod:poss
12	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bear	participle		every baby not said here	a zoo	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	help	present	every baby			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	save	infinitive	every baby not said here	baby's species		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme

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