Exam question 1 · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the purring of the domestic cat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: purring

This is exam question 1 of lesson 197 «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 purring	det
10	purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 cat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
13	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cat	amod
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 purring	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the purring of the domestic cat				of the following statements; accurately 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 · ✓ the right answer

Purring may accompany contentment, injury or fear alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 accompany	csubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 accompany	aux
3	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompany	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 injury	punct
6	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contentment	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 fear	cc
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contentment	conj
9	alike	alike	ADV	_	3 accompany	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accompany	may	Purring	contentment and injury or fear				alike property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contentment=Theme

Option 2

Purring invariably indicates contentment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 indicates	csubj
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	1 Purring	advmod
3	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	gerund						invariably property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	indicate	present	Purring	contentment					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot contentment=Topic

Option 3

Only adult cats are capable of purring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cats	advmod
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 capable	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 capable	cop
5	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 purring	case
7	purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 capable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	adult cats					of purring; capable property	tree rules

Option 4

Purring is produced solely by the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purring	purring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 produced	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 produced	aux:pass
3	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 produced	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stomach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stomach	det
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 produced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present · passive	the stomach	Purring				solely property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

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