Test 6 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

«Steve Irwin used to grab crocs on TV, good idea or nah» What is a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Steve · What happens: use, grab, be · To what, where: crocs, TV, fair answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
2	Steve	Steve	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj
3	Irwin	Irwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Steve	flat
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grab	mark
6	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	crocs	croc	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grab	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 TV	case
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crocs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 idea	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idea	amod
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crocs	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 idea	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 used	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use in a quote	past	Steve			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent what=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	grab in a quote	to-infinitive	Steve not said here	crocs	TV	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croc=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present		a fair answer		tree rules

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

It was totally safe for anyone to copy at home or at the zoo, no worries

The tree, 16 words

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 safe	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 safe	advmod
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 copy	mark
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 copy	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 copy	mark
8	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 zoo	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 zoo	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 zoo	det
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 home	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worries	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 worries	det
17	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					safe, totally property	tree rules
2	copy	to-infinitive	anyone			home or the zoo			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at home=Destination

Option 2

It was bad for animals in every way

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 bad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bad	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					for animals in every way; bad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It made millions care about animals, but handling wild animals is risky

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	nsubj
4	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 care	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 risky	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 risky	cc
9	handling	handle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 risky	csubj
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 handling	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 risky	cop
13	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	It			tree rules
2	care	present	millions		about animals	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about animal=Stimulus
3	handle	gerund		wild animals		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
4	is	present	handling		risky property	tree rules

Option 4

Crocodiles enjoyed being grabbed and would swim up to him to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grabbed	nsubj:pass
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grabbed	aux:pass
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 swim	aux
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grabbed	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 swim	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swim	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	grab	past · passive	Crocodiles		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	swim up	would		him = he	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
3	play	to-infinitive			vn performance-26.7-1 «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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