Exam question 1 · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

Identify the source from which mock turtle soup was customarily prepared.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, prepare · To what, where: source, mock turtle soup

This is exam question 1 of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 source	det
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 prepared	obl
6	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soup	compound
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soup	compound
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prepared	aux:pass
10	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	11 prepared	advmod
11	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 source	acl:relcl
12	.	.	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 source					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent source=Theme
2	prepare	past · passive		mock turtle soup		the source		customarily property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from which=Material

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 head of a calf, in imitation of genuine turtle soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 head	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 calf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 calf	det
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 head	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 imitation	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 imitation	case
8	imitation	imitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 head	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 soup	case
10	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soup	amod
11	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soup	compound
12	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imitation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imitate			genuine turtle soup					nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The flesh of a rare species of sea turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flesh	det
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 species	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 species	det
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 species	amod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flesh	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 turtle	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turtle	compound
9	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 species	nmod

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

Option 3

A preparation of seaweed and shellfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 preparation	det
2	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seaweed	case
4	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 preparation	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shellfish	cc
6	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 preparation	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare			seaweed					nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The shells of turtles boiled for many hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shells	det
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 turtles	case
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shells	nmod
5	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shells	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hours	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle		the shells of turtles not said here			hour		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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