Exam question 3 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the legs of the centipede.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, legs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 legs	det
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 centipede	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 centipede	det
14	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the legs of the centipede		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leg=Experiencer

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 pairs of legs are invariably odd in number, so one hundred legs never occurs

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pairs	det
2	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 odd	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 legs	case
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pairs	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 odd	cop
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	7 odd	advmod
7	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 number	case
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 odd	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 legs	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 hundred	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 legs	nummod
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 odd	obl
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 occurs	advmod
16	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 legs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pairs of legs			number		hundred legs obl; invariably, odd property	tree rules
2	not occur	present	hundred legs not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Every centipede possesses precisely one hundred legs, as its common name states

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 centipede	det
2	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possesses	nsubj
3	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	6 hundred	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nummod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possesses	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 states	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 states	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 states	nmod:poss
11	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 states	amod
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 states	compound
13	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possesses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	every centipede	hundred legs				as centipede's common name states	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot leg=Theme

Option 3

The number of legs increases by one pair with each year of the animal's age

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 increases	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 legs	case
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pair	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pair	nummod
8	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 increases	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 increases	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 age	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 age	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 animal	case
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 year	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	the number of legs				year	by one pair	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Every centipede possesses precisely one thousand legs, ten for each segment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 centipede	det
2	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possesses	nsubj
3	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	6 thousand	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thousand	compound
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nummod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possesses	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ten	punct
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	appos
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 segment	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 segment	det
12	segment	segment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ten	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	every centipede	thousand legs					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot leg=Theme

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