Exam question 1 · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

Identify the course of action consistent with established guidance where an animal has been reported as having escaped from a zoological garden.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, establish, report, escape · To what, where: course, animal, zoological garden

This is exam question 1 of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 action	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 reported	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reported	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 reported	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 reported	aux:pass
15	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	acl:relcl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 escaped	mark
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 escaped	aux
18	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 reported	xcomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 garden	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 garden	det
21	zoological	zoological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 garden	amod
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 escaped	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the course of action		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	report	present · perfect · passive		a animal		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	escape	gerund · perfect			a zoological garden	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from garden=Initial_Location

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

Food should be placed in the street to attract the animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attract	mark
9	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 placed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attract	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	should · passive		Food		the street			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in street=Destination
2	attract	to-infinitive		the animal					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 2

The animal should be pursued for the purpose of photography

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursued	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pursued	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pursued	aux:pass
5	pursued	pursue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purpose	det
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursued	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 photography	case
10	photography	photography	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purpose	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pursue	should · passive		the animal				for the purpose of photography	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	purpose		photography						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The public should maintain a distance and permit trained keepers to recapture the animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 public	det
2	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maintain	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 maintain	aux
4	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maintain	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 permit	cc
8	permit	permit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	conj
9	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 keepers	amod
10	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 maintain	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 recapture	mark
12	recapture	recapture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 maintain	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recapture	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	maintain	should	the public	a distance and permit	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent distance=Theme keeper=Attribute
2	train	participle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	recapture	to-infinitive	the public not said here	the animal	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 4

Members of the public should endeavour to capture the animal themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 endeavour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 public	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 public	det
4	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Members	nmod
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 endeavour	aux
6	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 capture	mark
8	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 endeavour	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 capture	obj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 capture	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavour	should	Members of the public						tree rules
2	capture	to-infinitive	Members of the public not said here	the animal				Members = member obl:unmarked	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

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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