Test 4 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

Why must zoos keep corroboree frogs in very clean rooms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoos · What happens: keep · To what, where: corroboree frogs, clean rooms

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 keep	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	corroboree	corroboree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frogs	compound
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 rooms	case
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 clean	advmod
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rooms	amod
10	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	zoos	corroboree frogs		clean rooms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme in room=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

So the chytrid fungus cannot reach them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 reach	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fungus	det
3	chytrid	chytrid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fungus	compound
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 reach	advmod
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the chytrid fungus	them = they					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

So the frogs stay small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frogs	det
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the frogs					small property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

So visitors can see them better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	visitors	them = they				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Because frogs dislike all water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 dislike	mark
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dislike	nsubj
3	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dislike	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	present	frogs	all water					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

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