Exam question 4 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…

Ascertain the course of events affecting the saiga antelope subsequent to the mass mortality of the year 2015.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, events · What happens: ascertain, affect · To what, where: course, antelope subsequent

This is exam question 4 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 events	case
5	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 course	nmod
6	affecting	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 events	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 subsequent	det
8	saiga	saiga	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 antelope	compound
9	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 subsequent	compound
10	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affecting	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 mortality	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mortality	det
13	mass	mass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mortality	amod
14	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affecting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 year	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mortality	nmod
18	2015	2015	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 year	flat
19	.	.	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 course of events					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
2	affect	gerund	events not said here	the antelope subsequent				to the mass mortality of the year	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subsequent=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

The species was rendered extinct and no individuals survived in any country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	aux:pass
4	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendered	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 survived	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 individuals	det
8	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 survived	nsubj
9	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 survived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	past · passive		the species				extinct property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	survive	past	no individuals			any country			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Under protection from hunting its numbers in Kazakhstan exceeded one million

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	2 protection	case
2	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exceeded	nsubj
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 hunting	mark
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 protection	acl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 numbers	nmod:poss
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunting	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Kazakhstan	case
8	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl
9	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 exceeded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund	protection not said here	protection's numbers		Kazakhstan			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent number=Theme in kazakhstan=Location
2	exceed	past	protection	one million					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot million=Theme

Option 3

The surviving animals migrated across the sea to Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
2	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	migrated	migrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 animals	acl
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 migrated	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 migrated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	gerund							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	migrate	participle		the surviving animals not said here	Australia	the sea			tree rules

Option 4

The population remained at fewer than one hundred animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 population	det
2	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	9 animals	case
5	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 hundred	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 fewer	fixed
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 animals	nummod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the population					at hundred animals	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at animal=Location

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