Exam question 2 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the habitat of the wild lion?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: habitat

This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 habitat	det
10	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 lion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lion	det
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lion	amod
14	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 habitat	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the habitat of the wild lion				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

Dense tropical jungle throughout South America, together with the forests of Borneo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jungle	amod
2	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jungle	amod
3	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 jungle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forests	punct
8	together	together	ADV	_	11 forests	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 forests	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forests	det
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jungle	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Borneo	case
13	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 forests	nmod

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

Option 2

The ice fields of the Arctic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fields	compound
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Arctic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Arctic	det
6	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fields	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The coniferous forests of the far north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forests	det
2	coniferous	coniferous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forests	amod
3	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 north	amod
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forests	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Savanna, grassland and open woodland in Africa, together with the Gir Forest of India

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Savanna	Savanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grassland	punct
3	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Savanna	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 woodland	cc
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woodland	amod
6	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grassland	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 woodland	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Forest	punct
10	together	together	ADV	_	14 Forest	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 Forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Forest	det
13	Gir	Gir	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Forest	compound
14	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Savanna	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 India	case
16	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Forest	nmod

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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