Exam question 3 · Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the goliath frog.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, goliath frog

This is exam question 3 of lesson 308 «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» 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	12 frog	det
11	goliath	goliath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frog	compound
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	.	.	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 goliath frog		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus frog=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

It is capable of powered flight between trees

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	3 capable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 capable	cop
3	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flight	case
5	powered	power	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flight	amod
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 capable	obl
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of powered flight between trees; capable property	tree rules
2	power	participle							tree rules

Option 2

It is the smallest frog in existence, attaining approximately eight millimetres in length

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	5 frog	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frog	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 existence	case
7	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frog	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 attaining	punct
9	attaining	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 frog	acl
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	11 eight	advmod
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 millimetres	nummod
12	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attaining	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the smallest frog		existence			tree rules
2	attain	gerund	the smallest frog not said here	eight millimetres		length			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millimetre=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is the largest frog in existence, attaining approximately thirty-two centimetres in length

The tree, 14 words

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	5 frog	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frog	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 existence	case
7	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frog	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 attaining	punct
9	attaining	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 frog	acl
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	13 two	advmod
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 two	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 thirty	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 centimetres	nummod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attaining	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the largest frog		existence			tree rules
2	attain	gerund	the largest frog not said here	two centimetres		length			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is a species of toad native to Australia

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	4 species	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 species	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 species	det
4	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 toad	case
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 species	nmod
7	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toad	amod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 native	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a species				of toad	tree rules

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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