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title: Why might a zoo be the last home of a wild animal like Przewalski's… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a zoo be the last home of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse? Test 10 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 10 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

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Why might a zoo be the last home of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** zoo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** last home

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This is test 10 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t10:1
# text = Why might a zoo be the last home of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | might | a zoo | the last home |  |  |  | of a wild animal like Przewalski's horse | 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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Zoos made it by mixing different farm horses together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t10:o1:1
# text = Zoos made it by mixing different farm horses together
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Zoos | it |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 2 | **mix** | gerund | Zoos *not said here* | different farm horses |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It died out in the wild but survived and was bred in zoos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t10:o2:1
# text = It died out in the wild but survived and was bred in zoos
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | It |  |  |  |  | in the wild | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute |
| 2 | **survive** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **breed** | past · passive |  |  |  | zoos |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Zoos are where all wild animals first come from

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t10:o3:1
# text = Zoos are where all wild animals first come from
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Zoos |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | all wild animals |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wild animals prefer cages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t10:o4:1
# text = Wild animals prefer cages
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | present | Wild animals | cages |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus |

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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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