Exam question 4 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

Ascertain the function of the white deposits observed upon the legs of a white stork in hot weather.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, observe · To what, where: function, white deposits

This is exam question 4 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 function	det
3	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 deposits	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deposits	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deposits	amod
7	deposits	deposit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 function	nmod
8	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 deposits	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 legs	det
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 observed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 stork	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stork	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stork	amod
15	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 weather	case
17	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weather	amod
18	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stork	nmod
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 function of the white deposits					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Topic
2	observe	participle		the white deposits not said here				upon the legs of a white stork in hot weather	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

They are remnants of eggshell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remnants	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remnants	cop
3	remnants	remnant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 eggshell	case
5	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remnants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	remnants				of eggshell	tree rules

Option 2

They are a disease of the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disease	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 disease	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 disease	det
4	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disease	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a disease				of the skin	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are dried urine, whose evaporation cools the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	aux:pass
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cools	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 evaporation	nmod:poss
7	evaporation	evaporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cools	nsubj
8	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cools	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present · passive		They					tree rules
2	cool	present	evaporation	the blood					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 4

They are paint applied by farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 applied	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 applied	aux:pass
3	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 applied	nsubj:pass
4	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 farmers	case
6	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 applied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present · passive	farmers	They					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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