Exam question 3 · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

Ascertain the stimulus that provokes the bull to charge at the cape of a bullfighter.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stimulus · What happens: ascertain, provoke, charge · To what, where: stimulus, bull, cape

This is exam question 3 of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stimulus	det
3	stimulus	stimulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 provokes	nsubj
5	provokes	provoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stimulus	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bull	det
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 provokes	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 charge	mark
9	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 provokes	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 cape	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cape	det
12	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 charge	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bullfighter	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bullfighter	det
15	bullfighter	bullfighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cape	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the stimulus		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stimulus=Topic
2	provoke	present	the stimulus	the bull		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bull=Experiencer
3	charge	to-infinitive	the stimulus not said here		the cape of a bullfighter	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory

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

The noise of the spectators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 spectators	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spectators	det
5	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		the spectators						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The scent of the material

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scent	det
2	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 material	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 material	det
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scent	nmod

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

Option 3

The red colour of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cape	det
6	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The movement of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 movement	det
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 movement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move			the cape					nom movement «act 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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