Exam question 3 · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

Ascertain the purpose for which beehives are suspended upon fences by farmers in Kenya.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, farmers · What happens: ascertain, suspend · To what, where: purpose, beehives, fences

This is exam question 3 of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» 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 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 suspended	obl
6	beehives	beehive	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suspended	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 suspended	aux:pass
8	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 purpose	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 fences	case
10	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suspended	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 farmers	case
12	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suspended	obl:agent
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Kenya	case
14	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 farmers	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the purpose					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	suspend	present · passive	farmers in Kenya	beehives		fences		for the purpose	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon fence=Destination

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 capture of elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture			elephants					nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The warming of the bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm		the bees						nom warming «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The provision of honey to elephants in exchange for their departure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 honey	case
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provision	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 elephants	case
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 provision	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 exchange	case
8	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elephants	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 departure	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 departure	nmod:poss
11	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exchange	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide		honey					to elephants in exchange for elephants's departure	nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl
2	depart		elephants = elephant						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The deterrence of elephants from the consumption of crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deterrence	det
2	deterrence	deterrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 elephants	case
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 deterrence	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 consumption	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consumption	det
7	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elephants	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 crops	case
9	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			crops					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

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