Test 10 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

Why might a zoo be the last home of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: be · To what, where: last home

This is test 10 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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=Rel	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 home	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 zoo	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 home	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 home	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 home	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 home	amod
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 animal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animal	amod
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 home	nmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 horse	case
14	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 horse	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Przewalski	case
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 animal	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	a zoo	the last home				of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse	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

Zoos made it by mixing different farm horses together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 mixing	mark
5	mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horses	compound
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mixing	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	5 mixing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Zoos	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	mix	gerund	Zoos not said here	different farm horses				together property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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

It died out in the wild but survived and was bred in zoos

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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 died	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wild	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wild	det
6	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 survived	cc
8	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bred	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bred	aux:pass
11	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 died	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 zoos	case
13	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	die out	past	It		in the wild	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute
2	survive	past				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breed	past · passive		zoos		tree rules

Option 3

Zoos are where all wild animals first come from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 where	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animals	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	parataxis
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Zoos					where property	tree rules
2	come	present	all wild animals					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Wild animals prefer cages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	nsubj
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Wild animals	cages					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus

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