Exam question 3 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the neck of the giraffe.

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, neck

This is exam question 3 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 neck	det
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 giraffe	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giraffe	det
14	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 neck	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 neck of the giraffe		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neck=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

It contains seven bones, as in almost all mammals, each being very long

The tree, 13 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	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 bones	nummod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contains	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mammals	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	10 mammals	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 mammals	case
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 mammals	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mammals	det
10	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bones	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 long	nsubj
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 long	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 contains	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	seven bones				as all mammals	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bone=Theme
2	is	gerund	each					long property	tree rules

Option 2

It contains no bones, being supported by muscle alone

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	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contains	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 supported	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 supported	aux:pass
7	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 contains	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 muscle	case
9	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 supported	obl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 muscle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	no bones					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bone=Theme
2	support	gerund · passive	muscle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It contains a greater number of bones than that of any other animal

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	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 number	det
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 number	amod
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bones	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bones	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 animal	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 animal	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 that	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	a greater number of bones than that					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme

Option 4

It contains a single elongated bone

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	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bone	amod
5	elongated	elongate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bone	amod
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	It	a single elongated bone					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bone=Theme
2	elongate	participle							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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