Exam question 2 · Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules

Identify the parentage of the mule.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, parent · To what, where: parentage, mule

This is exam question 2 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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	3 parentage	det
3	parentage	parentage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mule	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mule	det
6	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parentage	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the parentage of the mule					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent parentage=Theme
2	parent			the mule					nom parentage «state 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 · ✓ the right answer

A male donkey and a female horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
2	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 donkey	amod
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 horse	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 donkey	conj

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

Option 2

Two donkeys of differing colouration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 donkeys	nummod
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 colouration	case
4	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 colouration	amod
5	colouration	colouration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 donkeys	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	differ	gerund							vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A male horse and a female zebra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 zebra	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zebra	det
6	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 zebra	amod
7	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	conj

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

Option 4

A female donkey and a male goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 donkey	amod
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 goat	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goat	det
6	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goat	amod
7	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 donkey	conj

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

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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