Test 6 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

How can a city zoo like the Bronx Zoo help animals far away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗

This is test 6 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 away	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 away	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zoo	compound
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
8	Bronx	Bronx	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zoo	compound
9	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 help	compound
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animals	compound
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 zoo	nmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 away	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It sends its keepers on holiday

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	2 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 keepers	nmod:poss
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sends	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 holiday	case
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	It	its keepers		holiday			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Theme

Option 2

It cannot help animals outside the city, so it does not try

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 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	obj
6	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 try	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 try	advmod
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	can	It		animals			outside the city	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary
2	not try	present · do-support	city						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It flies every one of its animals back home on holiday each year

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	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 animals	nmod:poss
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	2 flies	advmod
9	home	home	ADV	_	2 flies	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 holiday	case
11	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	It	every one of its animals		holiday	year	home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on holiday=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its society funds and runs conservation work in many countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 funds	nmod:poss
2	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 funds	compound
3	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 runs	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 funds	cc
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	compound
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Its society funds	conservation work		many countries			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent work=Theme in country=Trajectory
2	fund		Its = it						nom fund «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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