Exam question 2 · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

Identify the principal reason for which the medication of an animal is concealed within a favoured food.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, conceal, favour · To what, where: principal reason, medication

This is exam question 2 of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 concealed	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 medication	det
8	medication	medication	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 concealed	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 animal	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 medication	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 concealed	aux:pass
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 food	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 food	det
16	favoured	favour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 concealed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	conceal	present · passive		the medication of a animal	for the principal reason; within a favoured food	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	favour	participle				tree rules

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

The food increases the potency of the medicine twofold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increases	nsubj
3	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 potency	det
5	potency	potency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increases	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 twofold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 twofold	det
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twofold	compound
9	twofold	twofold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 potency	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	the food	the potency of the medicine twofold					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer potency=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Animals commonly reject bitter tablets offered alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reject	nsubj
2	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	3 reject	advmod
3	reject	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tablets	amod
5	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reject	obj
6	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tablets	acl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 offered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	present	Animals	bitter tablets				commonly property	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme
2	offer	participle		bitter tablets not said here				alone property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Animals are unable to swallow objects of any other form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 unable	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unable	cop
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 swallow	mark
5	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
6	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swallow	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 form	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 form	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 form	amod
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 objects	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Animals					unable property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive	Animals not said here	objects of any other form					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient

Option 4

The medicine dissolves without such a covering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolves	nsubj
3	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	7 covering	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 covering	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 covering	det
7	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	the medicine					without such covering	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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