Exam question 2 · Caring for pets

Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, present · To what, where: hazard, domestic cats

This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hazard	det
3	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hazard	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 lilies	case
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 presented	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cats	case
8	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cats	amod
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 presented	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the hazard					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hazard=Theme
2	present	participle		the hazard not said here	domestic cats			by lilies	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=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

Lilies are harmless to cats but poisonous to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harmless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 cats	case
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harmless	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 poisonous	cc
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harmless	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 dogs	case
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lilies					to cats; harmless property	tree rules
2	be		Lilies not said here					to dogs	tree rules

Option 2

Lilies are harmful to cats only when eaten in large quantity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harmful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmful	cop
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 eaten	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harmful	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 quantity	case
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quantity	amod
11	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lilies					harmful property	tree rules
2	eat	participle · passive		cats		large quantity			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lilies, including their pollen, are severely poisonous to cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poisonous	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pollen	punct
3	including	including	ADP	_	5 pollen	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pollen	nmod:poss
5	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lilies	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lilies	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poisonous	cop
8	severely	severely	ADV	_	9 poisonous	advmod
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 cats	case
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lilies and Lilies's pollen					to cats; poisonous, severely property	tree rules

Option 4

Lilies cause cats merely to sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cause	nsubj
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cause	obj
4	merely	merely	ADV	_	2 cause	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sneeze	mark
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cause	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Lilies	cats				merely property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cat=Patient
2	sneeze	to-infinitive	Lilies not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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