Exam question 1 · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the consequence of feeding wild animals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: consequence · What happens: follow, characteris, feed · To what, where: consequence, wild animals

This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 consequence	det
10	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 feeding	mark
12	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 consequence	acl
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animals	amod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feeding	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the consequence		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	feed	gerund	the consequence not said here		wild animals		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

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

The animals become permanently tame and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	5 tame	advmod
5	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 safe	cc
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tame	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the animals					tame property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The animals cease to require any other food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cease	nsubj
3	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 require	mark
5	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cease	xcomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 food	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 require	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present	the animals						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	require	to-infinitive	the animals not said here	any other food					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Precondition

Option 3

The animals are rendered healthier by human food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	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	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 rendered	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 food	case
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present · passive		the animals				by human food; healthy property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The animals lose their fear of people and may become dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fear	nmod:poss
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fear	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 become	cc
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the animals	animals's fear of people		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality
2	become	may	the animals not said here		dangerous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fear		animals = animal	people		nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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