Exam question 3 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the bar-headed goose.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, head · To what, where: response, headed goose

This is exam question 3 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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	14 goose	det
11	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 headed	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bar	punct
13	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 goose	amod
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
15	.	.	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 headed goose		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus goose=Experiencer
4	head	participle				vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 carries reserves of oxygen within its feathers

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 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reserves	reserve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carries	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 oxygen	case
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reserves	nmod
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 feathers	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	It	reserves of oxygen				within oxygen's feathers	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reserve=Theme

Option 2

It traverses mountains exclusively at midday

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 traverses	nsubj
2	traverses	traverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 traverses	obj
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 traverses	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midday	case
6	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traverses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	traverse	present	It	mountains		midday		exclusively property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Co-Theme

Option 3

It is incapable of flight at any altitude

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 incapable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incapable	cop
3	incapable	incapable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flight	case
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 incapable	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 altitude	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 altitude	det
8	altitude	altitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 incapable	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	incapable		any altitude		of flight	tree rules

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

Its blood transports oxygen with great efficiency, permitting flight over the Himalayas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 blood	nmod:poss
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transports	nsubj
3	transports	transport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transports	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 efficiency	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 efficiency	amod
7	efficiency	efficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transports	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 permitting	punct
9	permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 transports	advcl
10	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 permitting	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 Himalayas	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Himalayas	det
13	Himalayas	Himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 permitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transport	present	Its blood	oxygen				with great efficiency	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oxygen=Experiencer
2	permit	gerund	Its blood not said here	flight		the Himalayas			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flight=Theme over himalaya=Location

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