Exam question 1 · The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, j…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diet of leafcutter ants.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, diet

This is exam question 1 of lesson 157 «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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	_	14 ants	case
13	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ants	compound
14	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 diet	nmod
15	.	.	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 leafcutter ants		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

They subsist upon other insects exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 subsist	nsubj
2	subsist	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 insects	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 insects	amod
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsist	obl
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 subsist	advmod

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

Option 2

They subsist upon the leaves which they carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 subsist	nsubj
2	subsist	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 subsist	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carry	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carry	nsubj
8	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leaves	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	They					upon the leaves	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present	leaves = leaf	the leaves					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 3

They subsist upon the sap of trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 subsist	nsubj
2	subsist	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 sap	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sap	det
5	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 subsist	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sap	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They subsist upon a fungus cultivated upon chewed leaf material

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 subsist	nsubj
2	subsist	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 fungus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fungus	det
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 subsist	obl
6	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fungus	acl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 material	case
8	chewed	chew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 material	amod
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 material	compound
10	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cultivated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	They		upon a fungus	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	cultivate	participle		a fungus not said here	upon chewed leaf material	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	chew	participle				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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