Exam question 1 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…
Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal characteristic
This is exam question 1 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 | 4 characteristic | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 characteristic | amod |
| 4 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 droppings | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 droppings | det |
| 7 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 characteristic | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wombat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wombat | det |
| 10 | wombat | wombat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 droppings | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | 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 principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme |
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 are luminous at night
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 | 3 luminous | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 luminous | cop |
| 3 | luminous | luminous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luminous | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | night | luminous property | tree rules |
Option 2
They are spherical and are buried beneath the soil
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 | 3 spherical | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spherical | cop |
| 3 | spherical | spherical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 buried | cc |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 buried | aux:pass |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spherical | conj |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 soil | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soil | det |
| 9 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | spherical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bury | present · passive | They not said here | the soil | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: beneath soil=Destination |
Option 3
They are deposited exclusively in water, in the manner of the platypus
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 | 3 deposited | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deposited | aux:pass |
| 3 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 3 deposited | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deposited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 manner | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deposited | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 platypus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 platypus | det |
| 13 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 manner | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | present · passive | They | water | in the manner of the platypus; exclusively property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They are cubic in shape and are deposited upon rocks and logs to mark territory
The tree, 15 words
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 | 3 cubic | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cubic | cop |
| 3 | cubic | cubic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 shape | case |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cubic | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deposited | cc |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 deposited | aux:pass |
| 8 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cubic | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 rocks | case |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 deposited | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 logs | cc |
| 12 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rocks | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mark | mark |
| 14 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 deposited | advcl |
| 15 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mark | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | shape | cubic property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deposit | present · passive | They not said here | rocks and logs | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: upon rock=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mark | to-infinitive | They not said here | territory | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination |
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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