Exam question 4 · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning mother animals.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, mother animals

This is exam question 4 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	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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 animals	compound
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 concerning	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	mother animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=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

A mother animal never defends her young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	compound
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defends	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 defends	advmod
5	defends	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 young	nmod:poss
7	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not defend	present	a mother animal	animal's young					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Beneficiary

Option 2

A mother animal will abandon her young if approached

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animal	compound
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abandon	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 abandon	aux
5	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 young	nmod:poss
7	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abandon	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 approached	mark
9	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 abandon	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	future	a mother animal	animal's young					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme young=Source
2	approach a condition, not said to happen	participle	a mother animal not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A mother with young is invariably calm and harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calm	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 young	case
4	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 calm	cop
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	7 calm	advmod
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 harmless	cc
9	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a mother with young					calm, invariably property	tree rules
2	be		a mother with young not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A mother protecting her young is especially dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
3	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 mother	acl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 young	nmod:poss
5	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protecting	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	gerund	a mother not said here	her young					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Beneficiary
2	is	present	a mother					dangerous, especially property	tree rules

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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