Exam question 3 · Pet care, food and responsibility

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heating of reptiles kept as pets.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, reptiles · What happens: select, establish, concern, keep, heat · To what, where: response, heating, reptiles

This is exam question 3 of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday 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 heating	det
11	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 reptiles	case
13	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heating	nmod
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 reptiles	acl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 pets	case
16	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kept	obl
17	.	.	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 heating of reptiles		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heating=Experiencer
4	keep	participle		reptiles not said here	as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	heat		reptiles			nom heating «process intransitive»: of=agent

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

Reptiles generate abundant heat and require cooling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 generate	nsubj
2	generate	generate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heat	amod
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 generate	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 require	cc
6	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 generate	conj
7	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 require	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	generate	present	Reptiles	abundant heat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
2	require	present	Reptiles not said here	cooling					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cooling=Precondition

Option 2

Reptiles require warmth only during the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 summer	advmod
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 summer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Reptiles	warmth			summer		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme warmth=Precondition

Option 3

Reptiles may be kept at any temperature whatever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 temperature	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 temperature	det
7	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	may · passive		Reptiles		any temperature			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme whatever=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reptiles cannot generate their own body heat and require a lamp or mat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 generate	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 generate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 generate	advmod
4	generate	generate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heat	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heat	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	compound
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 generate	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 require	cc
10	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 generate	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lamp	det
12	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 require	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 mat	cc
14	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lamp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not generate	can	Reptiles	Reptiles's own body heat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
2	require	present	Reptiles not said here	a lamp or mat	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamp=Precondition
3	heat		Reptiles = reptile		nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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