Exam question 2 · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

Identify the principal reason for which beagles are frequently deployed at airports.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, deploy · To what, where: principal reason, beagles, airports

This is exam question 2 of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 deployed	obl
7	beagles	beagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deployed	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 deployed	aux:pass
9	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	10 deployed	advmod
10	deployed	deploy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 airports	case
12	airports	airport	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deployed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	deploy	present · passive		beagles		airports		for the principal reason; frequently property	tree rules

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

Their freedom from any requirement for exercise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 freedom	nmod:poss
2	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 requirement	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 requirement	det
5	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freedom	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 exercise	case
7	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requirement	nmod

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

Option 2

Their unusually great size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 size	nmod:poss
2	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	3 great	advmod
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 size	amod
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their amiable temperament combined with an exceptionally acute sense of smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 temperament	nmod:poss
2	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 temperament	amod
3	temperament	temperament	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 combined	nsubj
4	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 sense	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sense	det
7	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	_	8 acute	advmod
8	acute	acute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sense	amod
9	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 combined	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 smell	case
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle	Their amiable temperament					with a acute sense of smell	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sense=Co-Patient
2	sense			smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Their capacity to read luggage labels and to understand the names of countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 capacity	nmod:poss
2	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 read	mark
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 capacity	acl
5	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 labels	compound
6	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 understand	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 understand	mark
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 names	det
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 understand	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 countries	case
13	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive	luggage labels	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic
2	understand	to-infinitive	the names of countries	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	name		countries	nom name «communication 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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