Exam question 3 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the diet of golden snub-nosed monkeys in winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, nose · To what, where: diet

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 diet	det
10	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 monkeys	case
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 monkeys	amod
13	snub	snub	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nosed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 snub	punct
15	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 monkeys	amod
16	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 diet	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the diet of golden nosed monkeys	winter	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	nose	participle				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Bananas and other tropical fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fruit	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruit	amod
4	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruit	amod
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bananas	conj

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

Option 2

Fish and crustaceans of the rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crustaceans	cc
3	crustaceans	crustacean	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fish	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rivers	det
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fish	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lichen, bark and buds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lichen	lichen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bark	punct
3	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lichen	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 buds	cc
5	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lichen	conj

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

Option 4

Bamboo exclusively, in the manner of pandas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Bamboo	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manner	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 manner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manner	det
6	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bamboo	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pandas	case
8	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 manner	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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