Exam question 1 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

Identify the discovery for which Jane Goodall is principally renowned.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: discovery

This is exam question 1 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 discovery	det
3	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 renowned	mark
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 renowned	nsubj
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 renowned	nsubj
7	Goodall	Goodall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Jane	flat
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 renowned	cop
9	principally	principally	ADV	_	10 renowned	advmod
10	renowned	renowned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	advcl
11	.	.	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 discovery					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent discovery=Theme
2	is	present						principally, renowned property	tree rules

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

That chimpanzees are descended from humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chimpanzees	det
2	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 descended	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	aux:pass
4	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 humans	case
6	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 descended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	present · passive		that chimpanzees				from humans	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

That chimpanzees possess no capacity for learning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chimpanzees	det
2	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possess	nsubj
3	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 capacity	det
5	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possess	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 learning	case
7	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	that chimpanzees	no capacity				for learning	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capacity=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That chimpanzees fashion and employ tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chimpanzees	det
2	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fashion	nsubj
3	fashion	fashion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 employ	cc
5	employ	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fashion	conj
6	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 employ	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fashion	present	that chimpanzees						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	employ	present	that chimpanzees not said here	tools					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme

Option 4

That chimpanzees subsist entirely upon fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chimpanzees	det
2	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 subsist	nsubj
3	subsist	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 subsist	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subsist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	subsist	present	that chimpanzees					upon fruit; entirely property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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