Exam question 4 · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the present population of wild tigers.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, present population

This is exam question 4 of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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 population	det
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 population	amod
12	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tigers	case
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tigers	amod
15	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 population	nmod
16	.	.	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 present population of wild tigers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus population=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

Approximately five thousand five hundred, the majority in India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 five	compound
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 majority	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 majority	det
8	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hundred	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 India	case
10	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 majority	nmod

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

Option 2

Approximately fifty-five, all in captivity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 five	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 five	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fifty	punct
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 captivity	punct
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 captivity	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 captivity	case
8	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 five	conj

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

Option 3

Several million, distributed across Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 million	amod
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 distributed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 distributed	punct
4	distributed	distribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 distributed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distribute	participle · passive		Several million		Africa			vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 4

None whatsoever, the species having been wholly extinct in the wild for a century

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 None	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 species	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 species	det
5	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 None	conj
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 None	acl
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 extinct	cop
8	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	9 extinct	advmod
9	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 having	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wild	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wild	det
12	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 extinct	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 century	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 century	det
15	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund					century		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle				the wild		extinct, wholly 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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