Test 10 · The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs

«zoo horses are just pets, they don't matter» Why are zoo animals sometimes important?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo horses, pets · What happens: be, not matter · To what, where: pets, zoo animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 382 «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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	_	6 pets	punct
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horses	compound
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pets	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pets	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 pets	advmod
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 matter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pets	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 matter	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 matter	advmod
11	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 matter	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 animals	advmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 animals	cop
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animals	compound
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 matter	parataxis
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 important	advmod
18	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	zoo horses	pets	tree rules
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	pets		tree rules
3	is a	present		zoo animals	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

Zoos only keep cartoon animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Zoos	cartoon animals					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 2

Zoo horses can never go back to the wild, because they forget how to run

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horses	compound
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forget	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 forget	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forget	nsubj
13	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 run	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 run	mark
16	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forget	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not go back	can	Zoo horses	to the wild result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wild=Result
2	forget	present	horses = horse		tree rules
3	not run	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Przewalski's horses survived only in zoos and went back to the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horses	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Przewalski	case
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survived	nsubj
4	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 zoos	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoos	case
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 survived	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wild	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wild	det
13	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Przewalski's horses			zoos			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location
2	go back	past	Przewalski's horses not said here					to the wild result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wild=Result

Option 4

Wild horses are everywhere anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 horses	amod
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 everywhere	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 everywhere	cop
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 everywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild horses					anyway, everywhere property	tree rules

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