Exam question 2 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the koala.

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

This is exam question 2 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	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 koala	det
11	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	.	.	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 koala		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus koala=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

It is a species of monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 species	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 species	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 species	det
4	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 species	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a species				of monkey	tree rules

Option 2

It is the smallest member of the bear family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 member	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 member	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 member	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 member	amod
5	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 family	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 family	compound
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 member	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the smallest member				of the bear family	tree rules

Option 3

It is closely related to the giant panda of China and eats bamboo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 related	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 related	cop
3	closely	closely	ADV	_	4 related	advmod
4	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 panda	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 panda	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 panda	amod
8	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 related	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 China	case
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 panda	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eats	cc
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 related	conj
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to the giant panda of China; closely, related property	tree rules
2	eat	present		bamboo					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a marsupial and in no sense a member of the bear family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marsupial	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 marsupial	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 marsupial	det
4	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 member	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sense	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sense	det
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 member	compound
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 member	det
10	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marsupial	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 family	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 family	compound
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 member	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a marsupial and a sense member of the bear family					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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