Exam question 1 · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

Identify the phenomenon which is acknowledged to constitute the largest movement of animals upon Earth.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, acknowledge, constitute, move · To what, where: phenomenon, largest movement, animals

This is exam question 1 of lesson 175 «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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	3 phenomenon	det
3	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 acknowledged	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 acknowledged	aux:pass
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 phenomenon	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 constitute	mark
8	constitute	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 acknowledged	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 movement	det
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 movement	amod
11	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constitute	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 animals	case
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 movement	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 Earth	case
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 animals	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the phenomenon	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent phenomenon=Theme
2	acknowledge	present · passive		the phenomenon	tree rules
3	constitute	to-infinitive		the largest movement of animals upon Earth	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme movement=Pivot
4	move			animals upon Earth	nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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

The migration of salmon up rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 migration	det
2	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 salmon	case
4	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 migration	nmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 migration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	migrate		salmon					up rivers	nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent up=obl

Option 2

The seasonal migration of wildebeest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 migration	det
2	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 migration	amod
3	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wildebeest	case
5	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 migration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	migrate		wildebeest						nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The annual flight of swallows to Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flight	det
2	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flight	amod
3	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 swallows	case
5	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flight	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Africa	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swallows	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

The nightly ascent and dawn descent of animals of the twilight zone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ascent	det
2	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ascent	amod
3	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 descent	cc
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 descent	compound
6	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ascent	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 descent	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 zone	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 zone	det
11	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 zone	compound
12	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend		animals of the twilight zone						nom descent «event intransitive»: of=agent

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