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title: The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain. What… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain. What would people think today? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

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The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain. What would people think today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** fish, think · **To what, where:** polar bear, Thames

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:1
# text = The Tower of London polar bear fished in the Thames on a chain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	fished	fish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Thames	Thames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fish** | participle |  | polar bear *not said here* |  | the Thames |  | on a chain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in thames=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would people think today?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:2
# text = What would people think today?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | people |  |  |  | today |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That polar bears like muddy city rivers better than the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:o1:1
# text = That polar bears like muddy city rivers better than the sea
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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That it was cruel and far from what a polar bear needs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:o2:1
# text = That it was cruel and far from what a polar bear needs
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | a polar bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That it should be done again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:o3:1
# text = That it should be done again
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should · passive |  | That |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That it was the perfect home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t8:o4:1
# text = That it was the perfect home
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | the perfect home |  |  |  |  | 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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