Exam question 1 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…
Identify the largest extant species of fish.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: largest extant species
This is exam question 1 of lesson 174 «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 | 5 species | det |
| 3 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 species | amod |
| 4 | extant | extant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 species | amod |
| 5 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 species | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | 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 largest extant species of fish | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent species=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
The great white shark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shark | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shark | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shark | amod |
| 4 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The blue whale of the open oceans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oceans | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oceans | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oceans | amod |
| 7 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whale | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The giant manta ray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ray | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ray | amod |
| 3 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ray | compound |
| 4 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The whale shark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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