Exam question 1 · Wolves and dogs

Identify the animal from which, according to the established evidence, all domestic dogs are descended.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, accord, establish, descend · To what, where: animal, domestic dogs

This is exam question 1 of lesson 24 «Wolves and dogs» 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	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 evidence	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 evidence	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evidence	det
10	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 evidence	amod
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 descended	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 dogs	det
14	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dogs	amod
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 descended	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 descended	aux:pass
17	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 evidence	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the animal	accord the established evidence	tree rules
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	descend	present · passive		all domestic dogs		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 red fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The spotted hyena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hyena	det
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hyena	amod
3	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The grey wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The brown bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	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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