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title: Why does the zoo keep a breeding group of Sumatran tigers? — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the zoo keep a breeding group of Sumatran tigers? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Test 10 · ★ · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

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Why does the zoo keep a breeding group of Sumatran tigers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** zoo · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** breeding group

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t10:1
# text = Why does the zoo keep a breeding group of Sumatran tigers?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Sumatran	Sumatran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · do-support | the zoo | a breeding group of Sumatran tigers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To make them bigger than other tigers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t10:o1:1
# text = To make them bigger than other tigers
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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As insurance if wild ones die out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t10:o2:1
# text = As insurance if wild ones die out
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	insurance	insurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | present | wild ones |  |  |  |  | as insurance | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To sell their stripes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t10:o3:1
# text = To sell their stripes
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | their stripes |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because they are too dangerous in the wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t10:o4:1
# text = Because they are too dangerous in the wild
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  | the wild |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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**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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