Exam question 3 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers

Select the response consistent with the established procedures governing entry into the den of a dangerous animal.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established procedures · What happens: select, establish, govern · To what, where: response, entry, den

This is exam question 3 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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 procedures	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 procedures	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 procedures	amod
8	procedures	procedure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	governing	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 procedures	acl
10	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 governing	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 den	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 den	det
13	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 governing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 animal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 den	nmod
18	.	.	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	govern	gerund	the established procedures not said here	entry	the den of a dangerous animal		vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent entry=Theme

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 keeper enters alone, armed with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enters	nsubj
3	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 enters	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 armed	punct
6	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enters	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 armed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	the keeper					alone, armed property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The keeper enters only at night, when the animal is calm and drowsy after its evening meal

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enters	nsubj
3	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enters	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 calm	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 calm	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 calm	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 calm	cop
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enters	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drowsy	cc
14	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calm	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 meal	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 meal	nmod:poss
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meal	compound
18	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	the keeper	after animal's evening meal; night		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the animal		calm property	tree rules
3	be		the animal not said here			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The animal is first removed through sliding doors, the locks being checked in two stages

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	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 removed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 removed	aux:pass
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 removed	advmod
5	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 doors	case
7	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 doors	amod
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 removed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 locks	det
11	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 checked	nsubj:pass
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 checked	aux:pass
13	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 removed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 stages	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 stages	nummod
16	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 checked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remove	present · passive	the animal	sliding doors	first property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	slide	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	check	gerund · passive	the locks	two stages		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The keeper enters while the animal sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enters	nsubj
3	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 sleeps	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleeps	nsubj
7	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enters	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	the keeper						vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	the animal						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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