Exam question 1 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…

Identify the condition under which a cow commences the production of milk.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cow · What happens: identify, commence, produce · To what, where: condition, production, milk

This is exam question 1 of lesson 341 «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» 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 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 commences	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commences	nsubj
8	commences	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 condition	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 production	det
10	production	production	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 commences	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 milk	case
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 production	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the condition		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	commence	present	a cow	the production of milk	the condition	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent production=Eventuality
3	produce			milk		nom production «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Exclusively when milked by mechanical apparatus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 milked	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 milked	advmod
3	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 apparatus	case
5	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apparatus	amod
6	apparatus	apparatus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 milked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	milk	participle						by mechanical apparatus; exclusively property	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Subsequent to the birth of a calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 birth	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birth	det
4	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Subsequent	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 calf	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 calf	det
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birth	nmod

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

Option 3

Continuously from the moment of her own birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Continuously	continuously	ADV	_	4 moment	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 birth	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birth	amod
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moment	nmod

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

Option 4

Upon the consumption of a sufficient quantity of grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 consumption	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consumption	det
3	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 quantity	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quantity	det
6	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quantity	amod
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumption	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 grass	case
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quantity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			a sufficient quantity of grass					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

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