Exam question 2 · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the sunflower.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, origin

This is exam question 2 of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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 origin	det
11	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sunflower	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunflower	det
14	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 origin	nmod
15	.	.	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 origin of the sunflower		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus origin=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

It originated in Ukraine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 originated	nsubj
2	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ukraine	case
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 originated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	past	It			Ukraine			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was introduced from Australia in recent decades by merchants and travellers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 introduced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 introduced	aux:pass
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 introduced	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 decades	case
7	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 decades	amod
8	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 introduced	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 merchants	case
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 introduced	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 travellers	cc
12	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 merchants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	past · passive	merchants and travellers	It		Australia	decade		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It originated in North America and reached Europe in the sixteenth century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 originated	nsubj
2	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 originated	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 originated	conj
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
11	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 century	amod
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	past	It			North America			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past		Europe			century		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme

Option 4

It was first cultivated in China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cultivated	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cultivated	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 cultivated	advmod
4	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cultivated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cultivate	past · passive		It		China		first property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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