Exam question 2 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

Identify the principal prey of Haast's eagle.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal prey

This is exam question 2 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 prey	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prey	amod
4	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 eagle	case
6	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eagle	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Haast	case
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prey	nmod
9	.	.	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 prey of Haast's eagle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prey=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 · ✓ the right answer

The moa, a flightless bird of great mass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moa	det
2	moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moa	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mass	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mass	amod
9	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod

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

Option 2

Domestic sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sheep	amod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Small rodents of the forest floor of New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rodents	amod
2	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rodents	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Zealand	case
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zealand	flat
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 floor	nmod

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

Option 4

Marine fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marine	marine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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