Exam question 3 · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat
Ascertain the factor determining the colour of a hen's eggshell.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, factor · What happens: ascertain, determine · To what, where: factor, colour
This is exam question 3 of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 factor | det |
| 3 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | determining | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 factor | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colour | det |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determining | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eggshell | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hen | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eggshell | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 hen | case |
| 11 | eggshell | eggshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colour | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the factor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | determine | gerund | the factor not said here | the colour of a hen's eggshell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic |
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 nutritional value of the egg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 value | det |
| 2 | nutritional | nutritional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 value | amod |
| 3 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 egg | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 value | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | the egg | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
The presence of a cockerel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 presence | det |
| 2 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cockerel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cockerel | det |
| 5 | cockerel | cockerel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presence | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The season of laying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 laying | case |
| 4 | laying | laying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 season | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The breed of the hen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 breed | det |
| 2 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hen | det |
| 5 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breed | nmod |
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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