Exam question 4 · Sleep and hibernation

Ascertain the term applied to a period of dormancy undertaken during a hot and arid season.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, apply, undertake · To what, where: term, dormancy

This is exam question 4 of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 term	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 period	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 period	det
7	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 applied	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dormancy	case
9	dormancy	dormancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 period	nmod
10	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dormancy	acl
11	during	during	ADP	_	16 season	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 season	det
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 season	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 arid	cc
15	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hot	conj
16	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 undertaken	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	apply	participle		the term not said here		to a period of dormancy	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	undertake	participle		dormancy not said here	season		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Migration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hibernation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Metamorphosis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aestivation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aestivation	aestivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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