Exam question 2 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

State the title of the work by Rachel Carson which contributed to the prohibition of DDT in the United States.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: work, Rachel Carson · What happens: contribute, title, work, prohibit · To what, where: prohibition, work, DDT

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 title	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 title	det
3	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 work	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 title	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Carson	case
8	Rachel	Rachel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Carson	compound
9	Carson	Carson	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 contributed	nsubj
11	contributed	contribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 work	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 prohibition	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prohibition	det
14	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contributed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 DDT	case
16	DDT	ddt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prohibition	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 States	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 States	det
19	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 States	amod
20	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 DDT	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 title	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	contribute	past	the work by Rachel Carson		the prohibition of DDT in the United States	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prohibition=Recipient
2	title			the work by Rachel Carson		nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	work		Rachel Carson			nom work «act intransitive»: by=agent
4	prohibit			DDT in the United States		nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

On the Origin of Species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 Origin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Origin	det
3	Origin	Origin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Species	case
5	Species	Specie	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Origin	nmod

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

Option 2

The Overloaded Ark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ark	det
2	Overloaded	overload	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Ark	amod
3	Ark	Ark	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overload	participle							vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Blue Planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Planet	amod
2	Planet	Planet	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Silent Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Spring	amod
2	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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