Exam question 4 · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

Ascertain the reason for which an albino animal exhibits pink or red eyes.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, albino animal · What happens: ascertain, exhibit · To what, where: reason, pink eyes

This is exam question 4 of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 exhibits	obl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
7	albino	albino	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animal	compound
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exhibits	nsubj
9	exhibits	exhibit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reason	acl
10	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 red	cc
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pink	conj
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exhibits	obj
14	.	.	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	exhibit	present	a albino animal	pink eyes				for the reason	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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

The animal consumes red berries and the juice colours its eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumes	nsubj
3	consumes	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 berries	amod
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consumes	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 colours	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colours	det
8	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colours	compound
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 berries	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consumes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present	the animal	red berries and the juice colours					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The eyes are coloured by red tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coloured	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coloured	aux:pass
4	coloured	colour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tears	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tears	amod
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coloured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colour	present · passive		the eyes				by red tears	tree rules

Option 3

The eyes are perpetually inflamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inflamed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 inflamed	aux:pass
4	perpetually	perpetually	ADV	_	5 inflamed	advmod
5	inflamed	inflame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inflame	present · passive		the eyes				perpetually property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The blood vessels are visible through the unpigmented eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vessels	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vessels	compound
3	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 visible	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 visible	cop
5	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 eye	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
8	unpigmented	unpigmented	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the blood vessels			the unpigmented eye		visible property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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