Test 1 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

«my mate says zoos just keep animals locked up and never let any go» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, zoos, any · What happens: say, keep, lock up, not let, go, be · To what, where: animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 animals	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 locked	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	conj
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 let	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	keep in a quote	present	zoos	animals		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	lock up in a quote	participle		animals not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	not let in a quote	infinitive	zoos not said here			tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	any			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present			true 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

Every zoo animal is released back into the wild after exactly one year there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 animal	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	compound
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 released	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 released	aux:pass
5	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 released	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 released	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 year	nummod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 released	obl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 year	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release back	present · passive		every zoo animal		the wild	year		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Zoos are not allowed to release anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 release	mark
6	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 release	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Zoos					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	release not said to happen	to-infinitive	Zoos not said here	anything					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer anything=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Zoos have returned oryx, bison, condors, horses and snails to the wild

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 oryx	amod
4	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bison	punct
6	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oryx	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 condors	punct
8	condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oryx	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horses	punct
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oryx	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snails	cc
12	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 horses	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wild	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wild	det
15	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Zoos	returned oryx and bison and condors and horses and snails				to the wild	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oryx=Patient
2	return	participle							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Released zoo animals always die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 animals	amod
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	participle							vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	die	present	Released zoo animals					always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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