Exam question 4 · Mountains: life as you climb higher

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the vocalisation of the snow leopard.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, vocalise · To what, where: response, vocalisation, snow leopard

This is exam question 4 of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 vocalisation	det
11	vocalisation	vocalisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 leopard	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leopard	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leopard	compound
15	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vocalisation	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 vocalisation of the snow leopard		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vocalisation=Experiencer
4	vocalise			the snow leopard		nom vocalisation «communication transitive»: of=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

It produces no sound of any description

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 produces	nsubj
2	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 description	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 description	det
7	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	It	no sound of any description					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Result

Option 2

It communicates exclusively by whistling

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 communicates	nsubj
2	communicates	communicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 communicates	advmod
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 whistling	mark
5	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 communicates	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	communicate	present	It					exclusively property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is incapable of roaring and produces a puffing sound

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	3 incapable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incapable	cop
3	incapable	incapable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 roaring	mark
5	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 incapable	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 produces	cc
7	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incapable	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
9	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 produces	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		incapable property	tree rules
2	roar	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	produce	present		a puffing sound		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Result

Option 4

It roars more loudly than any other cat

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 roars	nsubj
2	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 loudly	advmod
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 roars	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 cat	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 cat	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cat	amod
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loudly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	It					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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