Exam question 1 · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

Identify the land animal capable of attaining the greatest velocity.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, attain · To what, where: land animal, greatest velocity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 animal	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animal	compound
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 attaining	mark
7	attaining	attain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 capable	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 velocity	det
9	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 velocity	amod
10	velocity	velocity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attaining	obj
11	.	.	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 land animal				capable property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	attain	gerund	you not said here	the greatest velocity					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velocity=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 leopard of Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The South American jaguar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jaguar	det
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jaguar	compound
3	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jaguar	amod
4	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The cheetah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cheetah	det
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The African lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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