Exam question 3 · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory
It is given that tusks are composed of ivory. Determine which anatomical category they belong to.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, tusks · What happens: give, compose, determine, category, belong · To what, where: It, tusks, anatomical category
This is exam question 3 of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that tusks are composed of ivory.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 composed | mark |
| 5 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 composed | aux:pass |
| 7 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ivory | case |
| 9 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 composed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compose | present · passive | tusks | of ivory | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine which anatomical category they belong to.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 category | nsubj |
| 3 | anatomical | anatomical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 category | amod |
| 4 | category | category | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 belong | nsubj |
| 6 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 category | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 belong | case |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | category | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | belong | present | tusks = tusk | anatomical category not said here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cheekbones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheekbones | cheekbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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