Exam question 2 · Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors an…

State the measure principally responsible for the recovery of humpback whale populations.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whale populations · What happens: state, recover · To what, where: measure

This is exam question 2 of lesson 282 «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 measure	det
3	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	5 responsible	advmod
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 measure	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 recovery	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 recovery	det
8	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 responsible	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 populations	case
10	humpback	humpback	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whale	compound
11	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 populations	compound
12	populations	population	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recovery	nmod
13	.	.	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 measure					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent measure=Topic
2	recover		whale populations						nom recovery «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

The construction of artificial lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 construction	det
2	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lakes	case
4	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lakes	amod
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 construction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	construct			artificial lakes					nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The feeding of whales by fishing vessels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feeding	det
2	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 whales	case
4	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeding	nmod
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 fishing	mark
6	fishing	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 feeding	acl
7	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	gerund	the feeding of whales not said here	vessels					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
2	feed		whales						nom feeding «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The prohibition of commercial whaling in 1986

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 whaling	case
4	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whaling	amod
5	whaling	whaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prohibition	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1986	case
7	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 prohibition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit			commercial whaling					nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The removal of all sharks from the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sharks	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sharks	det
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 removal	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 oceans	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oceans	det
8	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sharks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			all sharks from the oceans					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

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