Exam question 4 · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…
State the relationship between the red panda and the giant panda.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: relationship
This is exam question 4 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 relationship | det |
| 3 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 panda | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 panda | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 panda | amod |
| 7 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 relationship | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 panda | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 panda | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 panda | amod |
| 11 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 panda | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the relationship | between the red panda and the giant panda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent relationship=Topic |
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
The red panda is the juvenile form of the giant panda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 panda | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 panda | amod |
| 3 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 form | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 form | det |
| 6 | juvenile | juvenile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | compound |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 panda | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 panda | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 panda | amod |
| 11 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the red panda | the juvenile form | of the giant panda | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The giant panda is descended directly from the red panda within the last million years
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 panda | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 panda | amod |
| 3 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 descended | aux:pass |
| 5 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 descended | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 panda | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 panda | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 panda | amod |
| 10 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 descended | obl |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 descended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present · passive | the giant panda | the red panda | year | directly property | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They are not closely related, each having evolved a wrist thumb independently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 related | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 related | advmod |
| 4 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 5 related | advmod |
| 5 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 having | nsubj |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 evolved | csubj |
| 9 | evolved | evolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thumb | det |
| 11 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thumb | compound |
| 12 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 evolved | obj |
| 13 | independently | independently | ADV | _ | 9 evolved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | They | closely, related property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | evolve | past | having | a wrist thumb | independently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thumb=Theme |
Option 4
They are a single species differing only in colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 species | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 species | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 species | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 species | amod |
| 5 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | differing | differ | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 species | acl |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 colour | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 colour | case |
| 9 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 differing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | a single species | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | differ | gerund | a single species not said here | colour | tree rules |
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