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# Test 8 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

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«why bother breeding voles, they're just rats innit» What is the best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** voles, best answer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rats innit

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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/114-back-to-the-wild/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t8:1
# text = «why bother breeding voles, they're just rats innit» What is the best answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	bother	bother	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | voles *= vole* | rats innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the best answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Voles are from Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t8:o1:1
# text = Voles are from Australia
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Voles |  |  | Australia |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Voles are only bred to feed snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t8:o2:1
# text = Voles are only bred to feed snakes
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | present · passive |  | Voles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  | snakes |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Voles are exactly the same as brown rats, so breeding them is pointless and a waste of money

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t8:o3:1
# text = Voles are exactly the same as brown rats, so breeding them is pointless and a waste of money
1	Voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	breeding	breed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	pointless	pointless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Voles |  |  |  |  | as brown rats; exactly, same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breed** | gerund |  | Voles *= vole* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | breeding |  |  |  |  | pointless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They are native animals that vanished from much of Britain, and zoos help bring them back

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t8:o4:1
# text = They are native animals that vanished from much of Britain, and zoos help bring them back
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | native animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | native animals | much of Britain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | present | zoos |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | infinitive | zoos *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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