Exam question 4 · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…
State the origin of the pink colouration of flamingos.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: origin
This is exam question 4 of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 origin | det |
| 3 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 colouration | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 colouration | det |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colouration | amod |
| 7 | colouration | colouration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 origin | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flamingos | case |
| 9 | flamingos | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 colouration | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the origin of the pink colouration of flamingos | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent origin=Topic |
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
The blood vessels of their feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vessels | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vessels | compound |
| 3 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feathers | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vessels | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pigments contained in the algae and small crustaceans that they consume
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pigments | pigment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pigments | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 algae | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 algae | det |
| 5 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contained | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crustaceans | cc |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crustaceans | amod |
| 8 | crustaceans | crustacean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 algae | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 consume | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 consume | nsubj |
| 11 | consume | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pigments | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | Pigments not said here | the algae and small crustaceans | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in alga=Location | ||||
| 2 | consume | present | crustaceans = crustacean | Pigments | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Asset |
Option 3
A colour present invariably from hatching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 present | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 present | compound |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 3 present | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hatching | case |
| 6 | hatching | hatching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 present | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Exposure to the setting sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exposure | exposure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 4 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sun | compound |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Exposure | 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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