Exam question 4 · Flowers and pollination
It is given that bees perceive red poorly. Determine which pollinator is most probably served by a long red tubular flower.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees, you, long red tubular flower · What happens: give, perceive, determine, serve · To what, where: It, pollinator
This is exam question 4 of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that bees perceive red poorly.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 perceive | mark |
| 5 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 perceive | nsubj |
| 6 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 perceive | xcomp |
| 8 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 6 perceive | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | perceive | present | bees | poorly, red property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Determine which pollinator is most probably served by a long red tubular flower.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 pollinator | det |
| 3 | pollinator | pollinator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 served | aux:pass |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 probably | advmod |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 served | advmod |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Determine | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 flower | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 12 | tubular | tubular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | serve | present · passive | a long red tubular flower | which pollinator | probably property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The wind blowing past
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 wind | acl |
| 4 | past | past | ADV | _ | 3 blowing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow past | gerund | the wind not said here | past property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
A night-flying moth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moth | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 moth | amod |
| 5 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A hummingbird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hummingbird | det |
| 2 | hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A small striped honeybee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 honeybee | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honeybee | amod |
| 3 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honeybee | amod |
| 4 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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