Exam question 3 · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

Ascertain which sex of mosquito feeds upon blood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, sex · To what, where: sex, mosquito feeds

This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 sex	det
3	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 feeds	case
5	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeds	compound
6	feeds	feed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sex	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 blood	case
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeds	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	which sex of mosquito feeds upon blood					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sex=Topic
2	sex			mosquito feeds upon blood					nom sex «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

The male exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 male	det
2	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 male	advmod

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

Option 2

Both sexes, equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sexes	det
2	sexes	sex	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sexes	punct
4	equally	equally	ADV	_	2 sexes	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The female exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 female	det
2	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 female	advmod

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

Option 4

Neither sex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sex	det
2	sex	sex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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