Test 1 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

«zoos are just prisons for animals, end of» How could a fair thinker answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoos · What happens: be · To what, where: prisons

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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	_	5 prisons	punct
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prisons	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prisons	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 prisons	advmod
5	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 animals	case
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prisons	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prisons	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 could	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 of	punct
12	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 could	advmod
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 end	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 answer	det
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
16	thinker	thinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answer	compound
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 could	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prisons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	zoos	prisons and end				for animals	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

Zoos are really just big parks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parks	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 parks	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 parks	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 parks	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parks	amod
6	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Zoos	big parks					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some zoos were cruel, but good zoos help save species; people still disagree

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 zoos	det
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cruel	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	cop
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 help	cc
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 zoos	amod
8	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 help	nsubj
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	conj
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	xcomp
11	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 save	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 disagree	punct
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 disagree	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 disagree	advmod
15	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some zoos			cruel property	tree rules
2	help	present	good zoos				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	save	infinitive	good zoos not said here	species			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme
4	disagree	present	people		still		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, every animal loves being in a zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 loves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loves	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loves	nsubj
5	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 zoo	compound
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 zoo	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 zoo	det
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	every animal						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund				a loves zoo			tree rules

Option 4

Yes, every zoo in history is exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 same	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 zoo	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 history	case
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 zoo	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 same	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every zoo in history					exactly, same property	tree rules

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