Exam question 1 · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

Identify the reason for which a stick insect falls and remains motionless when disturbed.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stick insect · What happens: identify, fall, remain, disturb · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 1 of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 falls	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 insect	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 insect	compound
8	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 falls	nsubj
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remains	cc
11	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 falls	conj
12	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 remains	xcomp
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 disturbed	mark
14	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 remains	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	fall	present	a stick insect		for the reason	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme
3	remain	present	a stick insect not said here		motionless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	disturb	participle	a stick insect not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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

The insect is commencing hibernation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 insect	det
2	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 commencing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 commencing	aux
4	commencing	commence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 commencing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	present · progressive	the insect	hibernation					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hibernation=Eventuality

Option 2

The insect has suffered a permanent injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 insect	det
2	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suffered	aux
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 injury	det
6	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 injury	amod
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present · perfect · passive		the insect					tree rules

Option 3

The insect is seeking food upon the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 insect	det
2	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeking	aux
4	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeking	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present · progressive	the insect	food		the ground			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme upon ground=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Feigning death causes a predator to lose interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feigning	feign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 causes	csubj
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feigning	obj
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 predator	det
5	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 causes	xcomp
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feign	gerund		death	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	cause	present	Feigning	a predator	tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive	a predator not said here	interest	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality

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