Exam question 4 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

Ascertain which zoological institution receives the greatest number of visitors in the United Kingdom.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, zoological institution · What happens: ascertain, receive · To what, where: greatest number

This is exam question 4 of lesson 116 «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 receives	obj
3	zoological	zoological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 institution	amod
4	institution	institution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receives	nsubj
5	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 number	amod
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receives	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 visitors	case
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 Kingdom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Kingdom	det
13	United	United	PROPN	_	14 Kingdom	flat
14	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 visitors	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	receive	present	zoological institution	the greatest number of visitors in the United Kingdom					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent which=Theme number=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 menagerie of the Tower of London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 menagerie	det
2	menagerie	menagerie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tower	det
5	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 menagerie	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tower	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Chester Zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chester	Chester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zoo	compound
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Edinburgh Zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zoo	compound
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Whipsnade Zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whipsnade	Whipsnade	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zoo	compound
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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