Exam question 2 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the crown of the red-crowned crane.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 378 «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 crown	det
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 crane	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crane	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crowned	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 red	punct
16	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 crane	amod
17	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crown	nmod
18	.	.	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 crown of the crowned crane		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crown=Experiencer
4	crown	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	crown			the crowned crane		nom crown «communication 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

It is present solely in juveniles

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 present	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 present	cop
3	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 present	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 juveniles	case
6	juveniles	juvenile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 present	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			juveniles		present, solely property	tree rules

Option 2

It is acquired by the bird from berries

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 acquired	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acquired	aux:pass
3	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acquired	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 berries	case
8	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 acquired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	present · passive	the bird	It		berries			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from berry=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It consists of bare red skin rather than feathers

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 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 skin	case
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl
7	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 feathers	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 rather	fixed
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consists	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It					of bare red skin	tree rules

Option 4

It consists of red feathers

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 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feathers	amod
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It					of red feathers	tree rules

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