Exam question 4 · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…
Ascertain the wild species from which the domestic chicken is descended.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, descend · To what, where: wild species, domestic chicken
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 species | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 species | amod |
| 4 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 descended | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chicken | det |
| 8 | domestic | domestic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chicken | compound |
| 9 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 descended | aux:pass |
| 11 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 species | acl:relcl |
| 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 wild species | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Topic | ||||
| 2 | descend | present · passive | the domestic chicken | the wild species | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 ostrich of the African savannah and desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ostrich | det |
| 2 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 savannah | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 savannah | det |
| 5 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 savannah | amod |
| 6 | savannah | savannah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ostrich | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 desert | cc |
| 8 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 savannah | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The red junglefowl of the Asian jungles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 junglefowl | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 junglefowl | amod |
| 3 | junglefowl | junglefowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jungles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jungles | det |
| 6 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jungles | amod |
| 7 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 junglefowl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The wild turkey of the forests of North America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 turkey | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turkey | amod |
| 3 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forests | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forests | det |
| 6 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turkey | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 America | case |
| 8 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 America | compound |
| 9 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forests | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The common pheasant of the woods of Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pheasant | det |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pheasant | amod |
| 3 | pheasant | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pheasant | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Europe | case |
| 8 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woods | 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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