Exam question 2 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the limbs of a squid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: limbs

This is exam question 2 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 limbs	det
10	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 squid	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 squid	det
13	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 limbs	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the limbs of a squid				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

Ten arms, all of equal length and bearing suckers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arms	nummod
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 arms	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 length	case
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 length	amod
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bearing	cc
9	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 length	conj
10	suckers	sucker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 length	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eight arms together with two elongated tentacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arms	nummod
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 arms	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 tentacles	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tentacles	nummod
6	elongated	elongate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tentacles	amod
7	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elongate	participle							tree rules

Option 3

Six arms and four tentacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arms	nummod
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tentacles	cc
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tentacles	nummod
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arms	conj

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

Option 4

Eight arms and no tentacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arms	nummod
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tentacles	cc
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 tentacles	det
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arms	conj

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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