Exam question 1 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

Identify the term which denotes the process whereby small animals inhabiting predator-free islands attain an unusually large body size.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term, small animals · What happens: identify, denote, inhabit, attain · To what, where: term, process, predator, large body size

This is exam question 1 of lesson 181 «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 denotes	nsubj
5	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 term	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 process	det
7	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denotes	obj
8	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	16 attain	advmod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attain	nsubj
11	inhabiting	inhabit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 animals	acl
12	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inhabiting	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 predator	punct
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 islands	amod
15	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 inhabiting	obj
16	attain	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 process	acl:relcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 size	det
18	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 size	amod
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 size	compound
21	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attain	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	present	the term	the process		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot process=Topic
3	inhabit	gerund	small animals not said here	predator		tree rules
4	attain	present	small animals	a large body size	whereby property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=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

Seasonal migration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 migration	amod
2	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hibernation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Island dwarfism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwarfism	compound
2	dwarfism	dwarfism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Island gigantism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gigantism	compound
2	gigantism	gigantism	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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