Exam question 4 · Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles…

Ascertain the reason for which falconers among the Kazakh people principally employ female golden eagles.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, falconers · What happens: ascertain, employ · To what, where: reason, female golden eagles

This is exam question 4 of lesson 323 «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 falconers	det
6	falconers	falconer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 employ	nsubj
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	Kazakh	Kazakh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 people	compound
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 falconers	nmod
11	principally	principally	ADV	_	12 employ	advmod
12	employ	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl:relcl
13	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eagles	amod
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eagles	amod
15	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 employ	obj
16	.	.	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 reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	employ	present	which falconers among the Kazakh people	female golden eagles				principally property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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

Females require no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Females	no food					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Precondition

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Females are larger and more powerful than males

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 larger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 larger	cop
3	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 powerful	cc
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 powerful	advmod
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 larger	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 males	case
8	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 larger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Females					than males; large property	tree rules
2	be		Females not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Females possess a superior voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 possess	nsubj
2	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	Females	a superior voice					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot voice=Theme

Option 4

Females are incapable of escaping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 incapable	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incapable	cop
3	incapable	incapable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 escaping	mark
5	escaping	escape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 incapable	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Females					incapable property	tree rules
2	escape	gerund	Females not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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