Exam question 2 · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…

Identify the stimulus to which a bull principally responds when it charges the cape of the matador.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bull, stimulus · What happens: identify, respond, charge · To what, where: stimulus, cape

This is exam question 2 of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 stimulus	det
3	stimulus	stimulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 responds	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 responds	nsubj
8	principally	principally	ADV	_	9 responds	advmod
9	responds	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stimulus	acl:relcl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 charges	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 charges	nsubj
12	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 responds	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cape	det
14	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 charges	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 matador	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 matador	det
17	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cape	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the stimulus		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stimulus=Theme
2	respond speech: other	present	a bull		to the stimulus; principally property	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme
3	charge	present	stimulus	the cape of the matador		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cape=Theme

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 movement of the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 movement	det
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 movement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move			the cloth					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The odour of the coloured cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 odour	det
2	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 odour	nmod

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

Option 3

The rough texture of the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 texture	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 texture	amod
3	texture	texture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texture	nmod

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

Option 4

The red colour of the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod

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

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