Exam question 4 · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…

Ascertain which animal was first domesticated by human beings.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, human beings · What happens: ascertain, domesticate · To what, where: animal

This is exam question 4 of lesson 404 «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 domesticated	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 domesticated	aux:pass
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 domesticated	advmod
6	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 beings	case
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beings	amod
9	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 domesticated	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	domesticate	past · passive	human beings	which animal				first property	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

The cat, in the grain stores of the first farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stores	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 stores	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stores	det
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stores	compound
7	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cat	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 farmers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmers	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 farmers	amod
11	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stores	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The dog, descended from the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct
4	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dog	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wolf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	participle		the dog not said here		the wolf			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Location

Option 3

The horse, upon the steppes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 steppes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steppes	det
6	steppes	steppe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 horse	nmod

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

Option 4

The cow, descended from the aurochs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct
4	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cow	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 aurochs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aurochs	det
7	aurochs	auroch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 descended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	participle		the cow not said here		the aurochs			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from auroch=Location

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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