Exam question 4 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

Ascertain the term which designates an association between two species from which both derive benefit, as between the banded mongoose and the warthog.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: ascertain, designate, derive, band · To what, where: term, association, benefit, two species

This is exam question 4 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 designates	nsubj
5	designates	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 term	acl:relcl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 association	det
7	association	association	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 designates	obj
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 species	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 species	nummod
10	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 association	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 derive	obl
13	both	both	ADV	_	14 derive	advmod
14	derive	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 species	acl:relcl
15	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 derive	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mongoose	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	21 mongoose	case
18	between	between	ADP	_	21 mongoose	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mongoose	det
20	banded	band	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mongoose	amod
21	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 benefit	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 warthog	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 warthog	det
24	warthog	warthog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 benefit	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	designate	present	the term	a association		between two species	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent association=Theme
3	derive	present		benefit and the banded mongoose and the warthog	two species	both property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent benefit=Result from which=Material
4	band	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Hibernation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mutualism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mutualism	mutualism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Migration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Predation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Predation	predation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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