Exam question 1 · Sharks

Identify the material of which the skeleton of a shark is principally composed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, compose · To what, where: material, skeleton

This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Sharks» 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 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 composed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skeleton	det
7	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 composed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shark	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skeleton	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 composed	aux:pass
12	principally	principally	ADV	_	13 composed	advmod
13	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 material	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 material					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme
2	compose	present · passive		the skeleton of a shark				of the material; principally property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

Calcium shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calcium	Calcium	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shell	compound
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cartilage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Calcified coral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calcified	calcify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 coral	amod
2	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	calcify	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Ossified bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ossified	ossify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bone	amod
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ossify	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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