Exam question 3 · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the change in the conservation status of the giant panda in 2016.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, change, conservation status

This is exam question 3 of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 change	det
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 status	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 status	det
14	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 status	compound
15	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 panda	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 panda	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 panda	amod
19	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 status	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 2016	case
21	2016	2016	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 panda	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the change	the conservation status of the giant panda in 2016		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus change=Experiencer

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was reclassified from vulnerable to critically endangered following further heavy losses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reclassified	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reclassified	aux:pass
3	reclassified	reclassify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 vulnerable	case
5	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reclassified	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 endangered	case
7	critically	critically	ADV	_	8 endangered	advmod
8	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reclassified	obl
9	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 reclassified	advcl
10	further	further	ADV	_	11 heavy	advmod
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 losses	amod
12	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reclassify	past · passive		It		vulnerable		to endangered	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	follow	gerund		heavy losses					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Theme

Option 2

It was declared extinct in the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 declared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 declared	aux:pass
3	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 declared	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 declared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		It		the wild		extinct property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 3

It was removed from all lists, its numbers being beyond counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 removed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 removed	aux:pass
3	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lists	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lists	det
6	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 removed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 numbers	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 numbers	nmod:poss
9	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lists	conj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 counting	nsubj
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 counting	mark
12	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 numbers	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past · passive		It		all lists and its numbers			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from list=Source
2	count	gerund		its numbers not said here					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was reclassified from endangered to vulnerable following the protection of its forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reclassified	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reclassified	aux:pass
3	reclassified	reclassify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 endangered	case
5	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reclassified	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 protection	case
7	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 protection	amod
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 protection	amod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 protection	det
10	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reclassified	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forests	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 forests	nmod:poss
13	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 protection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reclassify	past · passive	It	endangered	to the vulnerable following protection of protection's forests	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	protect		protection's forests			nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient

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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