Exam question 3 · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning wild mushrooms.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, wild mushrooms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mushrooms	amod
11	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	.	.	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	wild mushrooms		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mushroom=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

Mushrooms that smell pleasant are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 smell	nsubj
3	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mushrooms	acl:relcl
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	xcomp
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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Mushrooms					pleasant property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	Mushrooms					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Cooking renders all mushrooms safe, whatever their kind or colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 renders	compound
2	renders	render	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mushrooms	det
4	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 renders	nmod:unmarked
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 renders	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kind	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kind	nmod:poss
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 renders	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 colour	cc
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Deadly kinds resemble edible kinds and none is to be eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kinds	amod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 resemble	nsubj
3	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	edible	edible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 resemble	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eaten	cc
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 eaten	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eaten	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 eaten	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 eaten	aux:pass
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 resemble	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	present	Deadly kinds	edible kinds					tree rules
2	eat	present · passive		none					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

White mushrooms are invariably safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mushrooms	amod
2	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safe	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White mushrooms					invariably, safe property	tree rules

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