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Test 11 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

The keeper says the zoo saves rare snails. Why do tiny animals need saving too?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: keeper, zoo, tiny animals · What happens: say, save, need · To what, where: rare snails · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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

Sentence 1: The keeper says the zoo saves rare snails.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saves	nsubj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snails	amod
8	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saves	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the keeper						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save	present	the zoo	rare snails					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why do tiny animals need saving too?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 need	xcomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 saving	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	tiny animals						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	gerund	tiny animals not said here						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One invasive predator can wipe them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 predator	nummod
2	invasive	invasive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 predator	amod
3	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipe	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wipe	aux
5	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wipe	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 wipe	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	can	One invasive predator	them = they					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

Option 2

They are kept only to feed the other animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 feed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feed	mark
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		They					tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	They not said here		the other animals				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

Option 3

They are too small to matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 matter	mark
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					small property	tree rules
2	matter	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They cannot live outside zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	They			zoos			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside zoo=Location

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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