Exam question 4 · Kindness to animals

Ascertain the proper conduct towards a wild animal encountered in a park.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, encounter · To what, where: proper conduct, wild animal, park

This is exam question 4 of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conduct	det
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 animal	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
9	encountered	encounter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 animal	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 park	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 park	det
12	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 encountered	obl
13	.	.	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 proper conduct				towards a wild animal	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
2	encounter	participle		a wild animal not said here		a park			vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To feed it bread from the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feed	obj
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		it		the hand			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 2

To capture it in order to keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 capture	mark
2	capture	capture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 capture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 capture	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 capture	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	to-infinitive		it		order			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive		order					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To observe it quietly from a distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 observe	mark
2	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 observe	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 observe	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 distance	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 observe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	to-infinitive		it				from a distance; quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

To chase it so that it may be seen better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 chase	mark
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chase	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 seen	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	aux:pass
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chase	advcl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 seen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	to-infinitive		it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	may · passive		it				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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