Test 8 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

Why would a zoo today never let visiting children play with a bear, as children did with Winnipeg?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo, children · What happens: not let, visit, play, do

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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	7 let	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 zoo	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 zoo	nmod:unmarked
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 let	xcomp
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 play	nsubj
10	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 visiting	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bear	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 play	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 Winnipeg	case
19	Winnipeg	Winnipeg	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 did	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not let	would	a zoo today		tree rules
2	visit	gerund	a zoo today not said here		tree rules
3	play	present	children	with a bear	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bear=Theme
4	do	past	children	with Winnipeg	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Bears today are all asleep for the whole year and cannot be woken up to play

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	nsubj
2	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bears	obl:unmarked
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 woken	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 woken	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 woken	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 woken	aux:pass
14	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 asleep	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 woken	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 woken	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bears	year	all, asleep property	tree rules
2	not wake up	can · passive	Bears not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
3	play	to-infinitive	Bears not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Bears are now smaller than children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smaller	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 smaller	advmod
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bears				now	than children; small property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bears are strong wild animals and can hurt people, even if usually calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 animals	conj
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 calm	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 calm	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 calm	mark
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 calm	advmod
14	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hurt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bears	strong wild animals					tree rules
2	hurt	can	Bears not said here	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Children are not allowed in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Children		zoos			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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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