Test 10 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

Why are albino animals more common in pets and zoos than in the wild?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: albino animals · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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	6 common	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 common	cop
3	albino	albino	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 common	nsubj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 common	advmod
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 pets	case
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 common	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 zoos	cc
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pets	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 wild	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wild	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wild	det
14	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 common	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 common	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	albino animals					in pets and zoos; than the wild; common property	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

Albinos refuse to live in the wild and walk into towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Albinos	albino	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 refuse	nsubj
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 live	mark
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refuse	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 towns	case
11	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	Albinos			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not live	to-infinitive	Albinos not said here	the wild		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location
3	walk	infinitive	Albinos not said here		into towns result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In the wild they are easy to spot and see poorly, so fewer survive

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 wild	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wild	det
3	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 easy	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spot	mark
8	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spot	conj
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fewer	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fewer	advmod
14	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 easy	conj
15	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fewer	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	the wild	easy property	tree rules
2	spot	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	see	infinitive	they not said here		poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	infinitive	they not said here		few property	tree rules

Option 3

Zoos make them by painting ordinary animals white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 painting	mark
5	painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 painting	obj
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 painting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Zoos	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	paint	gerund	Zoos not said here	ordinary animals				white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 4

Wild albinos turn dark in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 albinos	amod
2	albinos	albino	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Wild albinos			the sun		dark property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sun=Trajectory

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