Test 1 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

«London Zoo is the oldest zoo in the world» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: London Zoo, oldest zoo · What happens: be · To what, where: oldest zoo, world

This is test 1 of lesson 116 «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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	_	7 zoo	punct
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Zoo	compound
3	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 zoo	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 zoo	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 zoo	amod
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zoo	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 zoo	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	London Zoo	the oldest zoo		the world			tree rules
2	is	present	the oldest zoo					right property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it opened before any other zoo anywhere on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 zoo	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 zoo	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 zoo	amod
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 opened	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	it			Earth	before any other zoo	anywhere property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before zoo=Location

Option 2

No, London has never had a zoo, only farms and parks for animals

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 farms	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 farms	advmod
11	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 parks	cc
13	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 farms	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 animals	case
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 farms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · perfect	London	a zoo				farms for animals and parks obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Patient

Option 3

No, it opened in 1990

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1990	case
6	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	it			1990			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1990=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is the oldest scientific zoo; Vienna's Schönbrunn is older

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	6 zoo	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 zoo	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 zoo	amod
5	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoo	amod
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 older	punct
8	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Schönbrunn	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Vienna	case
10	Schönbrunn	Schönbrunn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 older	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 older	cop
12	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 zoo	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the oldest scientific zoo					tree rules
2	is	present	Vienna's Schönbrunn					old property	tree rules

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