Exam question 2 · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the colour of a living lobster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: colour

This is exam question 2 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	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 colour	det
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 lobster	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lobster	det
13	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lobster	compound
14	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 colour	nmod
15	?	?	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 colour of a living lobster				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

It is white, acquiring colour only from its diet

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	3 white	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 white	cop
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 acquiring	punct
5	acquiring	acquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 white	advcl
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acquiring	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 diet	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 diet	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 diet	nmod:poss
10	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acquiring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					white property	tree rules
2	acquire	gerund		colour		colour's diet			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Theme from diet=Source

Option 2

It is invariably red, both when alive upon the sea floor and when cooked for the table

The tree, 17 words

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 red	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 alive	punct
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 alive	nsubj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 alive	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floor	compound
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alive	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cooked	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 cooked	advmod
15	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 red	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	invariably, red property	tree rules
2	be		both	upon the sea floor	tree rules
3	cook	participle		for the table	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for table=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is ordinarily dark greenish brown or bluish, reddening only when cooked

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	6 brown	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brown	cop
3	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	6 brown	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	amod
5	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	amod
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 bluish	cc
8	bluish	bluish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reddening	punct
10	reddening	redden	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 brown	advcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 cooked	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cooked	advmod
13	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 reddening	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	brown, ordinarily property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	redden	gerund			tree rules
4	cook	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is green when young and red in old age

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	3 green	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 green	cop
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 green	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 red	cc
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 green	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 age	case
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 age	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 green	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				in old age	green property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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