Exam question 2 · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the contents of the camel's hump.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, contents

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 contents	det
11	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 hump	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 camel	det
14	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hump	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 camel	case
16	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contents	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the contents of the camel's hump		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus contents=Experiencer

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 right answer

It contains a reserve of fat rather than of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reserve	det
4	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fat	case
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reserve	nmod
7	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 water	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 rather	fixed
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	a reserve of fat rather water					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reserve=Theme

Option 2

It contains air for buoyancy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 buoyancy	case
5	buoyancy	buoyancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	air				for buoyancy	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot air=Theme

Option 3

It contains a reserve of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reserve	det
4	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reserve	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	a reserve of milk					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reserve=Theme

Option 4

It contains a reserve of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reserve	det
4	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reserve	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	a reserve of water					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reserve=Theme

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