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# Exam question 2 · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

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Identify the minimum distance which members of the public are advised to maintain from a seal resting upon a beach.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, members, seal · **What happens:** identify, advise, maintain, rest · **To what, where:** minimum distance, members, seal, beach

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:e2:1
# text = Identify the minimum distance which members of the public are advised to maintain from a seal resting upon a beach.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
6	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	advised	advise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the minimum distance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent distance=Theme |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | members of the public |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **maintain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | members of the public *not said here* |  |  | a seal |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | gerund | a seal *not said here* |  |  | a beach |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beach=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At least ten metres, with dogs retained on a lead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:e2:o1:1
# text = At least ten metres, with dogs retained on a lead
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | participle |  | dogs *not said here* |  | a lead |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At least ten metres, though dogs may approach freely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:e2:o2:1
# text = At least ten metres, though dogs may approach freely
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | may | dogs | ten metres at least *not said here* |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No distance, since seals are wholly harmless

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:e2:o3:1
# text = No distance, since seals are wholly harmless
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	since	since	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no distance since seals |  |  |  |  | harmless, wholly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At least one metre, with dogs permitted to run free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:e2:o4:1
# text = At least one metre, with dogs permitted to run free
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | participle |  | dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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