Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Biology / Why zoos exist and what critics say / t3

Test 3 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

Alex the lion in Madagascar can't hunt in the wild. What would happen to a real zoo-born lion set free?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alex · What happens: not hunt, happen, bear, set · To what, where: wild, real born lion

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Alex the lion in Madagascar can't hunt in the wild.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alex	Alex	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alex	appos
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Madagascar	case
5	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lion	nmod
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hunt	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hunt	advmod
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wild	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wild	det
11	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	can	Alex			the wild			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wild=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What would happen to a real zoo-born lion set free?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	10 lion	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lion	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lion	amod
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 born	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 zoo	punct
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lion	amod
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lion	acl
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 set	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a real born lion	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	participle							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	set	participle		a real born lion not said here				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1

It would catch a bus back to the zoo by itself

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	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bus	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 zoo	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 zoo	det
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch back	would	It	a bus				to the zoo; by zoo	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme

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

It might struggle to find food and survive

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	3 struggle	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 survive	cc
8	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	might	It						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	survive	present							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would live happily on wild fruit for years

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	3 live	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 live	aux
3	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	happily	happily	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fruit	amod
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	would	It			wild fruit	year	happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fruit=Location

Option 4

It would hunt perfectly well from the very first day

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	3 hunt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	aux
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 hunt	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 first	advmod
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would	It				day	perfectly, well property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/t3/