Test 2 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

«monkeys nicked the wiper off our car at the safari park, mad» Why do safari park monkeys do this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkeys, park monkeys · What happens: nick off, safari, do · To what, where: wiper, safari park, this

This is test 2 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	_	3 nicked	punct
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wiper	det
5	wiper	wiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 nicked	compound:prt
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 car	nmod:poss
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 park	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 park	det
11	safari	safari	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 park	compound
12	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 park	amod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 safari	advmod
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 safari	aux
18	safari	safari	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mad	advcl
19	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 monkeys	compound
20	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 safari	ccomp
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 do	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	nick off in a quote	past	monkeys	the wiper	the safari park	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent wiper=Beneficiary car=Theme
2	safari	present · do-support	monkeys not said here			tree rules
3	do	present	park monkeys	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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

They want to drive the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 drive	mark
4	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	drive not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the car					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

Option 2

They think the rubber wiper is a tasty bit of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wiper	det
4	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiper	compound
5	wiper	wiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bit	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
8	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bit	amod
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the rubber wiper	a tasty bit				of food	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are curious and pull at rubber parts of cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 curious	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pull	cc
5	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 parts	case
7	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parts	compound
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cars	case
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 parts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					curious property	tree rules
2	pull	present	They not said here					at rubber parts of cars	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at part=Theme

Option 4

They are trained by the keepers to steal from visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trained	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trained	aux:pass
3	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 keepers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keepers	det
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 steal	mark
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trained	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 visitors	case
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · passive	the keepers	They					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	steal	to-infinitive	the keepers not said here					from visitors	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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