Exam question 3 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the annual rings of a tree.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, annual rings

This is exam question 3 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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 rings	det
11	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rings	amod
12	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rings	nmod
16	.	.	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 annual rings of a tree		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ring=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 · ← Mova's choice

Rings are formed solely in years of drought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 formed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 formed	aux:pass
3	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 formed	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 formed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 drought	case
8	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present · passive		Rings			year	solely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Each ring corresponds to one year of growth, its width reflecting the favourability of conditions

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corresponds	nsubj
3	corresponds	correspond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 year	nummod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corresponds	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 growth	case
8	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 width	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 width	nmod:poss
11	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corresponds	obl
12	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 width	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 favourability	det
14	favourability	favourability	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reflecting	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 conditions	case
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 favourability	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correspond	present	each ring	ring's width			year		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reflect	gerund	ring's width not said here	the favourability of conditions					tree rules

Option 3

Each ring corresponds to one month of growth, so that a tree of one year displays twelve rings

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corresponds	nsubj
3	corresponds	correspond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 month	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 month	nummod
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corresponds	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 growth	case
8	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 month	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 displays	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 displays	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 displays	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 year	nummod
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	nmod
17	displays	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 corresponds	conj
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 rings	nummod
19	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 displays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correspond	present	each ring				month		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	display	present	a tree of one year	twelve rings					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

Option 4

The number of rings bears no relation to the age of the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bears	case
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bears	compound
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 relation	det
7	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bears	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 age	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 age	det
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relation	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 age	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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