Exam question 1 · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

Identify the wild progenitor of all domestic cattle.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: wild progenitor

This is exam question 1 of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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	4 progenitor	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 progenitor	amod
4	progenitor	progenitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 cattle	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cattle	det
7	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cattle	amod
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 progenitor	nmod
9	.	.	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 wild progenitor of all domestic cattle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent progenitor=Theme

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 water buffalo of Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buffalo	compound
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Asia	case
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buffalo	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The aurochs, a large wild ox which became extinct in 1627

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 aurochs	det
2	aurochs	auroch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 became	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 aurochs	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ox	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ox	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ox	amod
7	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1627	case
12	1627	1627	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 became	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the aurochs					in 1627 result; extinct property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1627=Result

Option 3

The American bison, which still roams the plains in herds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bison	det
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bison	amod
3	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roams	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 roams	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 roams	advmod
7	roams	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bison	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plains	det
9	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roams	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 herds	case
11	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roams	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	present	the American bison	the plains		herds	still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Trajectory

Option 4

The mountain yak of the Himalaya and the high plateau of Tibet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yak	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yak	compound
3	yak	yak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Himalaya	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Himalaya	det
6	Himalaya	Himalaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yak	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plateau	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plateau	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plateau	amod
10	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yak	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Tibet	case
12	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 plateau	nmod

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

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