Exam question 2 · Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thyla…
State the name and place of death of the last known passenger pigeon.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, last known passenger pigeon · What happens: state, know, die · To what, where: name
This is exam question 2 of lesson 281 «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 place | cc |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pigeon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pigeon | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pigeon | amod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pigeon | amod |
| 12 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pigeon | compound |
| 13 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the name and place of death of the last known passenger pigeon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | die | the last known passenger pigeon | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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
Dolly, in Edinburgh, in 2003
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dolly | dolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Edinburgh | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Edinburgh | case |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dolly | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 2003 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 2003 | case |
| 7 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Dolly | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Martha, in Cincinnati Zoo, in 1914
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Zoo | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Zoo | case |
| 4 | Cincinnati | Cincinnati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zoo | compound |
| 5 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Martha | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1914 | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1914 | case |
| 8 | 1914 | 1914 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Martha | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Martha, in Hobart Zoo, in 1936
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Zoo | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Zoo | case |
| 4 | Hobart | Hobart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zoo | compound |
| 5 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Martha | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1936 | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1936 | case |
| 8 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Martha | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lucy, in Ethiopia, in 1974
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ethiopia | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ethiopia | case |
| 4 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1974 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1974 | case |
| 7 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Lucy | nmod:unmarked |
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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