Exam question 3 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

Ascertain the principal defensive structure borne upon the tail of Ankylosaurus.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, bear · To what, where: principal defensive structure

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 structure	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 structure	amod
4	defensive	defensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 structure	amod
5	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 structure	acl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 borne	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ankylosaurus	case
11	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod
12	.	.	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 principal defensive structure					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent structure=Topic
2	bear	participle		the principal defensive structure not said here				upon the tail of Ankylosaurus	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

A venomous sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sting	det
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sting	amod
3	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A set of four elongated spikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 set	det
2	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 spikes	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 spikes	nummod
5	elongated	elongate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spikes	amod
6	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elongate	participle							tree rules

Option 3

A broad swimming fin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fin	det
2	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fin	amod
3	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fin	compound
4	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A heavy bony club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 club	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 club	amod
3	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 club	amod
4	club	club	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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