Test 4 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

What would happen to a zoo in Britain that failed its inspections again and again?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: happen, fail, inspect · To what, where: inspections

This is test 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 zoo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 zoo	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 failed	nsubj
10	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 zoo	acl:relcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 inspections	nmod:poss
12	inspections	inspection	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 failed	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 failed	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 again	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to a zoo in Britain	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fail	past	a zoo in Britain	zoo's inspections	again		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspection=Eventuality
3	inspect		zoo				nom inspection «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Nothing, inspections are just advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 inspections	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	inspections	inspection	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 advice	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 advice	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 advice	advmod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing inspections	advice					tree rules

Option 2

It would become a museum by law

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	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 museum	det
5	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a museum					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could be closed

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	4 closed	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	could · passive		It					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

It would be given more animals

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	4 given	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient animal=Theme

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