Test 8 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

Why do so many people visit zoos?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many people · What happens: visit · To what, where: zoos

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 many	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visit	nsubj
6	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visit	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 visit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	many people	zoos					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Co-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

Zoo tickets are free everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickets	compound
2	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 free	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 free	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Zoo tickets					everywhere, free property	tree rules

Option 2

People must visit a zoo once a year by law, or pay a fine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	aux
3	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 visit	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 law	case
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pay	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 pay	cc
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 visit	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fine	det
15	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	must	People	a zoo				by law; once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Co-Agent
2	pay	infinitive	People not said here	a fine					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset

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

To see real animals up close, learn and have a day out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learn	advcl
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 learn	punct
8	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	out	out	ADV	_	10 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	real animals		close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
2	learn	present				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have out	present		day	out property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

There is nothing else at all to do in cities at the weekend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 is	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 cities	case
10	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 weekend	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weekend	det
13	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			cities	weekend		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/t8/