Test 7 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

Which animal would be the hardest to keep well in a zoo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: zoo

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hardest	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hardest	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hardest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hardest	det
6	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hardest	acl
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 keep	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 zoo	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 zoo	det
12	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hardest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	which animal					hard property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive				a zoo		well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in zoo=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An orca, which swims huge distances in the ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 orca	det
2	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swims	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swims	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swims	nsubj
5	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distances	amod
7	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swims	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ocean	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	a orca	huge distances		the ocean			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory

Option 2

A stick insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 insect	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insect	compound
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A meerkat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meerkat	det
2	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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