Exam question 1 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diet of the wild rabbit.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, diet

This is exam question 1 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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 diet	det
11	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 rabbit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rabbit	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rabbit	amod
15	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 diet	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 diet of the wild rabbit		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus diet=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 · ✓ the right answer

It subsists principally upon grasses, clover and leafy vegetation

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	2 subsists	nsubj
2	subsists	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	principally	principally	ADV	_	2 subsists	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 grasses	case
5	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsists	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clover	punct
7	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grasses	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vegetation	cc
9	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vegetation	amod
10	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clover	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	It					upon grasses and clover and leafy vegetation; principally property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It subsists principally upon insects and earthworms

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	2 subsists	nsubj
2	subsists	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	principally	principally	ADV	_	2 subsists	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 insects	case
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsists	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 earthworms	cc
7	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	It					upon insects and earthworms; principally property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It subsists principally upon the fruits of trees

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	2 subsists	nsubj
2	subsists	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	principally	principally	ADV	_	2 subsists	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 fruits	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fruits	det
6	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsists	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fruits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	It					upon the fruits of trees; principally property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It subsists principally upon carrots taken from cultivated fields

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	2 subsists	nsubj
2	subsists	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	principally	principally	ADV	_	2 subsists	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 carrots	case
5	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsists	obl
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carrots	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fields	amod
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	It			upon carrots; principally property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	take	participle		carrots not said here	cultivated fields		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from field=Initial_Location
3	cultivate	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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