Exam question 4 · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Ascertain which of the following plants is poisonous if eaten.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, follow, be, eat · To what, where: plants

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 poisonous	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 poisonous	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poisonous	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 poisonous	csubj
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 following	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisonous	cop
8	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 eaten	mark
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poisonous	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund		plants		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
3	is	present			poisonous property	tree rules
4	eat a condition, not said to happen	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Foxglove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxglove	foxglove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lettuce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Garden pea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pea	compound
2	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Carrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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