Exam question 1 · Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps,…
Identify the mushroom responsible for the greatest number of deaths from mushroom poisoning throughout the world.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: mushroom
This is exam question 1 of lesson 393 «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 | 3 mushroom | det |
| 3 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Identify | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 responsible | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 deaths | case |
| 10 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 poisoning | case |
| 12 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poisoning | compound |
| 13 | poisoning | poisoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deaths | nmod |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poisoning | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | 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 mushroom | responsible property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mushroom=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 fly agaric
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 agaric | det |
| 2 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agaric | compound |
| 3 | agaric | agaric | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The field mushroom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mushroom | det |
| 2 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mushroom | compound |
| 3 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The death cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cap | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cap | compound |
| 3 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The common puffball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 puffball | det |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puffball | amod |
| 3 | puffball | puffball | 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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