Exam question 2 · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning green tea and black tea.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, green tea

This is exam question 2 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	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	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tea	amod
11	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tea	cc
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tea	amod
14	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tea	conj
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	green tea and black tea		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tea=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

Black tea is obtained from coffee plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tea	amod
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	aux:pass
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 plants	case
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	compound
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obtained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	present · passive		Black tea		coffee plants			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from plant=Source

Option 2

They are derived from two unrelated species

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 derived	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	aux:pass
3	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 species	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 species	nummod
6	unrelated	unrelated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 species	amod
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 derived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	derive	present · passive		They		two unrelated species			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from species=Material

Option 3

Green tea is a variety of grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tea	amod
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 variety	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 variety	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 variety	det
5	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 variety	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Green tea	a variety				of grass	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are derived from one species, Camellia sinensis, and differ in processing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 derived	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	aux:pass
3	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 species	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 species	nummod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 derived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sinensis	punct
8	Camellia	Camellia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sinensis	compound
9	sinensis	sinensis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 species	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 differ	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 differ	cc
12	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 processing	case
14	processing	processing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 differ	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	derive	present · passive		Both		one species and Camellia sinensis			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from species=Material
2	differ	present				processing			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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