Exam question 1 · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

Identify the animal which produces the most intense sound known in the animal kingdom.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, animal · What happens: identify, produce, know · To what, where: animal, intense sound, animal kingdom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 produces	nsubj
5	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animal	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 intense	advmod
8	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sound	amod
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produces	obj
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sound	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 kingdom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kingdom	compound
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 known	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the animal		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	produce	present	the animal	the intense sound		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Result
3	know	participle		the intense sound not said here	the animal kingdom	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sperm whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The African lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The cicada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cicada	det
2	cicada	cicada	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The howler monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
2	howler	howler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkey	compound
3	monkey	monkey	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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