Exam question 4 · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the habitat of hedgehogs in the natural world?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: habitat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 habitat	det
10	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 hedgehogs	case
12	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 habitat	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 world	amod
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hedgehogs	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the habitat of hedgehogs in the natural world				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

Across the forests of South America and southern Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Across	across	ADP	_	3 forests	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forests	det
3	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forests	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Asia	cc
8	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Asia	amod
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Europe, Asia and Africa, and not the banks of the Amazon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Asia	punct
3	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Africa	cc
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 banks	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 banks	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 banks	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Europe	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Amazon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Amazon	det
13	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 banks	nmod

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

Option 3

Europe, Asia and Africa, and not the banks of the Amazon or any river in South America at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Asia	punct
3	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Africa	cc
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 banks	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 banks	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 banks	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Europe	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Amazon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Amazon	det
13	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 banks	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 river	cc
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Amazon	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 America	case
18	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 America	compound
19	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 river	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 banks	nmod

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

Option 4

Mostly in the cold forests of Russia and northern Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 forests	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 forests	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forests	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forests	amod
5	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Russia	case
7	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forests	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Canada	cc
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Canada	amod
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Russia	conj

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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