Exam question 1 · Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dun…

Identify the principal purpose for which the teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex were adapted.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, adapt · To what, where: principal purpose, teeth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 265 «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» 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	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 adapted	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teeth	det
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 adapted	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 rex	case
10	Tyrannosaurus	Tyrannosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rex	compound
11	rex	rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 teeth	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 adapted	aux:pass
13	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purpose	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	adapt	past · passive		the teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex				for the principal purpose	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=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

The grinding of vegetation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The cracking of seeds and nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cracking	det
2	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seeds	case
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cracking	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nuts	cc
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack		seeds and nuts						nom cracking «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The crushing of bone and the tearing of flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crushing	det
2	crushing	crushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bone	case
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crushing	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tearing	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tearing	det
7	tearing	tearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crushing	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 flesh	case
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tearing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush			bone					nom crushing «act transitive»: of=patient
2	tear		flesh						nom tearing «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The filtering of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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