Exam question 3 · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning Elasmotherium, hereinafter termed the Siberian unicorn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hereinafter · What happens: select, establish, concern, term · To what, where: response, Siberian unicorn

This is exam question 3 of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Elasmotherium	case
10	Elasmotherium	Elasmotherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 facts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 termed	punct
12	hereinafter	hereinafter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 termed	nsubj
13	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 unicorn	det
15	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 unicorn	amod
16	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 termed	obj
17	.	.	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				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	term	past	hereinafter	the Siberian unicorn		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent unicorn=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

It was a giant rhinoceros whose horn has not been preserved

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	5 rhinoceros	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rhinoceros	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rhinoceros	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhinoceros	amod
5	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 horn	nmod:poss
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 preserved	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 preserved	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 preserved	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 preserved	aux:pass
11	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rhinoceros	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a giant rhinoceros					tree rules
2	not preserve	present · perfect · passive		horn					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2

It was a marine mammal of the Arctic

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	5 mammal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mammal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mammal	det
4	marine	marine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mammal	amod
5	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Arctic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Arctic	det
8	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mammal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a marine mammal				of the Arctic	tree rules

Option 3

It was a horse bearing a single horn

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 horse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 horse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 horse	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horn	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horn	amod
8	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a horse					tree rules
2	bear	gerund	a horse not said here	a single horn					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

Option 4

It survives at present in Siberia

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 survives	nsubj
2	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 present	case
4	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 survives	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Siberia	case
6	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 present	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present	It			present in Siberia			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at present=Location

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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