Exam question 4 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

Ascertain the cause of warts upon the human skin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, cause · To what, where: cause, warts

This is exam question 4 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 warts	case
5	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warts	nmod
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	the cause of warts upon the human skin					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	cause			warts upon the human skin					nom cause «event transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Exposure to the chytrid fungus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exposure	exposure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 fungus	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fungus	det
4	chytrid	chytrid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fungus	compound
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exposure	nmod

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

Option 2

Contact with the skin of toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 skin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Contact	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 toads	case
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skin	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A virus transmitted between persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 virus	det
2	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 virus	acl
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 persons	case
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 transmitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	participle		a virus not said here				between persons	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The consumption of frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 consumption	det
2	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 frogs	case
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			frogs					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

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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