Exam question 1 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

Identify the function most probably served by the dorsal plates of Stegosaurus.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, serve · To what, where: function

This is exam question 1 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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 function	det
3	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 served	advmod
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 served	advmod
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 function	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 plates	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plates	det
9	dorsal	dorsal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plates	amod
10	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 served	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Stegosaurus	case
12	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 plates	nmod
13	.	.	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 function					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=Theme
2	serve	participle		the function not said here				by the dorsal plates of Stegosaurus; probably property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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

Impenetrable armour against all predators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 armour	amod
2	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 predators	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 predators	det
5	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 armour	nmod

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

Option 2

The cutting of tree trunks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cutting	det
2	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trunks	case
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trunks	compound
5	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cutting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut		tree trunks						nom cutting «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Propulsion through water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Propulsion	propulsion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	3 water	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Propulsion	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Display, and possibly the regulation of temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 regulation	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 regulation	cc
4	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	6 regulation	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 regulation	det
6	regulation	regulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Display	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 temperature	case
8	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regulation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regulate			temperature					nom regulation «communication 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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