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Test 8 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain. What would people think today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: fish, think · To what, where: polar bear, Thames

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tower	det
2	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bear	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tower	nmod
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	fished	fish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bear	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Thames	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Thames	det
10	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fished	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 chain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chain	det
13	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fished	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	participle		polar bear not said here		the Thames		on a chain	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in thames=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 people think today?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl:unmarked
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	people				today		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

That polar bears like muddy city rivers better than the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 bears	nsubj
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rivers	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rivers	compound
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bears	nmod
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 bears	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That it was cruel and far from what a polar bear needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cruel	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cruel	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	cop
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 what	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 cruel	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bear	det
10	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bear	amod
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needs	nsubj
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					cruel property	tree rules
2	need	present	a polar bear						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

That it should be done again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 done	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 done	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · passive		That			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

That it was the perfect home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 home	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	the perfect home					tree rules

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.

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