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title: Why would choice make training easier for an animal? — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would choice make training easier for an animal? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 112 «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and heal…

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Why would choice make training easier for an animal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** choice · **What happens:** make, train

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 112 «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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/112-training-and-enrichment/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:112-training-and-enrichment:t2:1
# text = Why would choice make training easier for an animal?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	training	train	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	obj	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | choice |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **train** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Choice makes animals forget everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:112-training-and-enrichment:t2:o1:1
# text = Choice makes animals forget everything
1	Choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Choice | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | animals *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Animals hate being given choices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:112-training-and-enrichment:t2:o2:1
# text = Animals hate being given choices
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Animals | given choices |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It feels less stressed and is more willing to come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:112-training-and-enrichment:t2:o3:1
# text = It feels less stressed and is more willing to come back
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Choice means the animal never trains at all, so nothing is learned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:112-training-and-enrichment:t2:o4:1
# text = Choice means the animal never trains at all, so nothing is learned
1	Choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Choice |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **train** | present | the animal |  |  | all |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | present · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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