Exam question 1 · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…

Identify the group of living animals now classified as surviving dinosaurs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, classify, survive · To what, where: group, living animals

This is exam question 1 of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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 group	det
3	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 animals	case
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 group	nmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 classified	advmod
8	classified	classify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 animals	acl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 dinosaurs	case
10	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 dinosaurs	amod
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 classified	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the group of living animals			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent group=Theme
2	classify	participle		living animals not said here	now	as surviving dinosaurs	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as dinosaur=Attribute
3	survive	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 lizards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lizards	det
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The amphibians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 amphibians	det
2	amphibians	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The crocodiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodiles	det
2	crocodiles	crocodile	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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