Exam question 2 · Safe and kind in gardens and forests

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises wild berries and mushrooms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: wild berries

This is exam question 2 of lesson 229 «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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	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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 berries	amod
10	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mushrooms	cc
12	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 berries	conj
13	?	?	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		wild berries and mushrooms				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

Only berries growing close to the ground are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 berries	advmod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poisonous	nsubj
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 berries	acl
4	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 growing	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poisonous	cop
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	berries not said here					close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	berries					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

All brightly coloured ones are safe to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ones	det
2	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 coloured	advmod
3	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all coloured ones					safe property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	all coloured ones not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many are poisonous and some resemble edible kinds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 resemble	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 resemble	nsubj
6	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	conj
7	edible	edible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kinds	amod
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 resemble	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many					poisonous property	tree rules
2	resemble	present	some	edible kinds					tree rules

Option 4

All mushrooms are rendered safe once thoroughly cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mushrooms	det
2	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	aux:pass
4	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendered	xcomp
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 rendered	advmod
7	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	8 cooked	advmod
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rendered	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present · passive		all mushrooms				once, safe property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cook	participle						thoroughly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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