Exam question 1 · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

Identify the principal reason for which numerous cities plant exclusively male ginkgo trees.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, numerous cities · What happens: identify, plant · To what, where: principal reason, male ginkgo trees

This is exam question 1 of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 plant	obl
7	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cities	amod
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plant	nsubj
9	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	9 plant	advmod
11	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
12	ginkgo	ginkgo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trees	compound
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plant	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	plant	present	numerous cities	male ginkgo trees				for the principal reason; exclusively property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

Female trees are toxic to the touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 toxic	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 toxic	cop
4	toxic	toxic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 touch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 touch	det
7	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toxic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Female trees					to the touch; toxic property	tree rules

Option 2

Male trees attain greater height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attain	nsubj
3	attain	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 height	amod
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	present	Male trees	greater height					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Theme

Option 3

Male trees are more tolerant of drought and of the pollution of city streets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tolerant	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tolerant	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 tolerant	advmod
5	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 drought	case
7	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tolerant	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pollution	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pollution	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pollution	det
11	pollution	pollution	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drought	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 streets	case
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 streets	compound
14	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pollution	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Male trees					of drought and the pollution of city streets; tolerant property	tree rules
2	pollute			city streets					nom pollution «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only female trees bear seeds whose fleshy coat emits an offensive odour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 trees	advmod
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bear	nsubj
4	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bear	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 coat	nmod:poss
7	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 emits	nsubj
9	emits	emit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seeds	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 odour	det
11	offensive	offensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 odour	amod
12	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present	female trees	seeds					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary odour=Patient
2	emit	present	fleshy coat						vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source

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