Test 5 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…
Why would a zoo open only at night?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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 | 5 open | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 zoo | det |
| 4 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | nsubj |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 night | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Because animals vanish in daylight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 vanish | mark |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanish | nsubj |
| 3 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 daylight | case |
| 5 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanish | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | present | animals | daylight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
To show nocturnal animals awake and active
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 show | mark |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nocturnal | nocturnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 show | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 active | cc |
| 7 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 awake | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | nocturnal animals | awake property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |
Option 3
To save money on tickets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 save | mark |
| 2 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 save | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tickets | case |
| 5 | tickets | ticket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 save | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | money | tickets | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on ticket=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Because it is cooler for the visitors to sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 cooler | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cooler | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooler | cop |
| 4 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 visitors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 visitors | det |
| 7 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cooler | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cooler | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for the visitors; cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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.
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