Exam question 4 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the conservation status of the great apes.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, conservation status

This is exam question 4 of lesson 16 «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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	12 status	det
11	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 status	compound
12	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 apes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 apes	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 apes	amod
16	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 status	nmod
17	.	.	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 conservation status of the great apes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus status=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

No great ape has ever been considered at risk of extinction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 ape	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ape	amod
3	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 considered	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 considered	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 considered	aux:pass
7	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 risk	case
9	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 extinction	case
11	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 risk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	present · perfect · passive		no great ape		risk of extinction	ever		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	risk			extinction					nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every species of great ape is presently endangered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 endangered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ape	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ape	amod
5	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 species	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 endangered	cop
7	presently	presently	ADV	_	8 endangered	advmod
8	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every species of great ape					endangered, presently property	tree rules

Option 3

The great apes are abundant throughout every continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 apes	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apes	amod
3	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 abundant	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 abundant	cop
5	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	8 continent	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 continent	det
8	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abundant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the great apes				throughout every continent	abundant property	tree rules

Option 4

Only gorillas are presently considered to be at risk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 gorillas	advmod
2	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 considered	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 considered	aux:pass
4	presently	presently	ADV	_	5 considered	advmod
5	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 risk	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 risk	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 risk	case
9	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	present · passive		gorillas				presently property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	is	to-infinitive				risk			tree rules

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