Test 15 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

kid climbed over the zoo railing to get closer to the tiger, what can happen

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: climb, rail, get, happen · To what, where: zoo

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 zoo	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
6	railing	rail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 climbed	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 railing	xcomp
9	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 get	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tiger	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tiger	det
12	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 closer	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 climbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	kid	the zoo		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over zoo=Trajectory
2	rail	gerund	kid not said here			tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	kid not said here		close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	happen	can				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

The keepers give him a free ticket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keepers	det
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ticket	det
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ticket	amod
7	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the keepers	a free ticket	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ticket=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, zoo animals are tame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 zoo	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tame	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tame	cop
6	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	zoo animals					tame property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The animal can reach and badly hurt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurt	cc
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hurt	advmod
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reach	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	can	the animal						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	infinitive	the animal not said here	animal				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

Option 4

The tiger is too sleepy to care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleepy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 sleepy	advmod
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 care	mark
7	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleepy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tiger					sleepy property	tree rules
2	care	to-infinitive	the tiger not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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