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title: What would happen to a zoo in Britain that failed its inspections ag… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a zoo in Britain that failed its inspections again and again? Test 4 of lesson 116 «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Famous zoos in the USA and the UK

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What would happen to a zoo in Britain that failed its inspections again and again?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** zoo · **What happens:** happen, fail, inspect · **To what, where:** inspections

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This is test 4 of lesson 116 «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk:t4:1
# text = What would happen to a zoo in Britain that failed its inspections again and again?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	inspections	inspection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a zoo in Britain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fail** | past | a zoo in Britain | zoo's inspections |  |  | again |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inspection=Eventuality |
| 3 | **inspect** |  | zoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom inspection «act transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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Nothing, inspections are just advice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, inspections are just advice
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	inspections	inspection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	advice	advice	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** | present | Nothing inspections | advice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would become a museum by law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk:t4:o2:1
# text = It would become a museum by law
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | It | a museum |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It could be closed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk:t4:o3:1
# text = It could be closed
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | could · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would be given more animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk:t4:o4:1
# text = It would be given more animals
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient animal=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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