Test 8 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

«why bother breeding voles, they're just rats innit» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: voles, best answer · What happens: be · To what, where: rats innit

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 why	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	bother	bother	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voles	det
4	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voles	compound
5	voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 why	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 innit	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 innit	advmod
10	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 innit	compound
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voles	appos
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 why	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	voles = vole	rats innit					tree rules
2	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

Voles are from Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Australia	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Australia	cop
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Voles			Australia			tree rules

Option 2

Voles are only bred to feed snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bred	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bred	advmod
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feed	mark
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bred	advcl
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	present · passive		Voles					tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive			snakes				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient

Option 3

Voles are exactly the same as brown rats, so breeding them is pointless and a waste of money

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 same	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 rats	case
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rats	amod
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 same	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pointless	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 pointless	advmod
11	breeding	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pointless	csubj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 breeding	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pointless	cop
14	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 same	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waste	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 waste	det
17	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pointless	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 money	case
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Voles		as brown rats; exactly, same property	tree rules
2	breed	gerund		Voles = vole		tree rules
3	is	present	breeding		pointless property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are native animals that vanished from much of Britain, and zoos help bring them back

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 vanished	nsubj
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 much	case
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vanished	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
13	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 help	nsubj
14	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	conj
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	They	native animals	tree rules
2	vanish	past	native animals	much of Britain	tree rules
3	help	present	zoos		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	bring back	infinitive	zoos not said here	zoos = zoo	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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