Exam question 4 · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the kangaroo rat.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, kangaroo rat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 182 «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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	12 rat	det
11	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rat	compound
12	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	.	.	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 kangaroo rat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rat=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 stores water in its tail

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	2 stores	nsubj
2	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stores	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	It	water		water's tail			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in tail=Location

Option 2

It drinks several litres of water daily

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	2 drinks	nsubj
2	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 litres	amod
4	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drinks	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 litres	nmod
7	daily	daily	ADV	_	2 drinks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	It	several litres of water				daily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may live without drinking, obtaining water from seeds and producing very dry urine

The tree, 14 words

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	3 live	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 live	aux
3	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 drinking	mark
5	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 live	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 obtaining	punct
7	obtaining	obtain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drinking	conj
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obtaining	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 seeds	case
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtaining	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 producing	cc
12	producing	produce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drinking	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 dry	advmod
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 urine	amod
15	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 producing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	may	It			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	obtain	gerund		water	seeds	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from seed=Source
4	produce	gerund		dry urine		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent urine=Result

Option 4

It inhabits rainforests exclusively

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	2 inhabits	nsubj
2	inhabits	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inhabits	obj
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 inhabits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inhabit	present	It	rainforests				exclusively property	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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