Exam question 2 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the feet of the great bustard.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, feet

This is exam question 2 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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	11 feet	det
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 bustard	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bustard	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bustard	amod
15	bustard	bustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	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 feet of the great bustard		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=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

Each foot bears four toes adapted to perching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bears	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bears	nmod
6	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 toes	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 perching	case
8	perching	perching	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adapted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adapt	participle		four toes not said here				to perching goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to perching=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Each foot bears three toes and no hind toe, consistent with life on open ground

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bears	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 toes	nsubj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 toe	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 toe	det
8	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toe	amod
9	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toes	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consistent	punct
11	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toes	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 life	case
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consistent	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ground	amod
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consistent	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The feet are webbed for swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feet	det
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 webbed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 webbed	aux:pass
4	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 swimming	case
6	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 webbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	web	present · passive		the feet				for swimming	tree rules

Option 4

Each foot bears a single toe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bears	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toe	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toe	amod
6	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	nmod

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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