Exam question 4 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

Ascertain the classification of the organisms commonly sold under the name «sea monkeys».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, sell, classify · To what, where: classification, organisms, name

This is exam question 4 of lesson 259 «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 classification	det
3	classification	classification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 organisms	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 organisms	det
6	organisms	organism	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 classification	nmod
7	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	8 sold	advmod
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 organisms	acl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 name	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sold	obl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 monkeys	punct
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monkeys	compound
14	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 name	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 monkeys	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the classification of the organisms			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent classification=Topic
2	sell	participle		the organisms not said here	the name	commonly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	classify			the organisms			nom classification «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Primates of marine habit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 habit	case
3	marine	marine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 habit	amod
4	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Primates	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brine shrimps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brine	brine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shrimps	compound
2	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Juvenile fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Juvenile	juvenile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	compound
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Sea snails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snails	compound
2	snails	snail	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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