Exam question 1 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the memory of the blue tang.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 133 «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 memory	det
11	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tang	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tang	det
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tang	amod
15	tang	tang	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 memory	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 memory of the blue tang		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=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 species retains no information whatsoever after hatching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 retains	nsubj
3	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 information	det
5	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	obj
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 retains	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 hatching	mark
8	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 retains	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	present	the species	no information				whatsoever property	tree rules
2	hatch	gerund	the species not said here						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The species is incapable of retaining any information beyond several seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 incapable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 incapable	cop
4	incapable	incapable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 retaining	mark
6	retaining	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 incapable	acl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 information	det
8	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retaining	obj
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	11 seconds	case
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seconds	amod
11	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 retaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the species	incapable					tree rules
2	retain	gerund	incapable not said here	any information			second		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No particular deficiency of memory is known; most fish retain information for weeks or months

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 deficiency	det
2	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deficiency	amod
3	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 memory	case
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deficiency	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux:pass
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 retain	punct
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 retain	nsubj
11	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 known	conj
12	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retain	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 retain	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 months	cc
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 weeks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		no particular deficiency of memory					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	retain	present	most fish	information			week		tree rules

Option 4

The species retains every event of its life without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 retains	nsubj
3	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 event	det
5	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 event	nmod
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 exception	case
10	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	present	the species	every event of event's life				without exception	tree rules

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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