Exam question 1 · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

Identify the principal sense by means of which the domestic dog apprehends its surroundings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, domestic dog · What happens: identify, mean, apprehend · To what, where: principal sense, surroundings

This is exam question 1 of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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	4 sense	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 means	case
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 apprehends	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 apprehends	nsubj
12	apprehends	apprehend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 surroundings	nmod:poss
14	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 apprehends	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal sense	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	apprehend	present	the domestic dog	dog's surroundings	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surroundings=Stimulus

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 sense of smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The sense of taste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			taste					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The sense of touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			touch					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The sense of sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			sight					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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