Exam question 4 · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

State which of the following foods may render a pet seriously ill.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: following foods · What happens: follow, render · To what, where: State

This is exam question 4 of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 render	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 foods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foods	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 foods	amod
6	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 render	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 render	aux
8	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 State	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pet	det
10	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 render	obj
11	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	12 ill	advmod
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 render	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	render	may	the following foods	State					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient pet=Theme

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

Dry food sold for pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 food	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 pets	case
5	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	participle		Dry food not said here				for pets	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for pet=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pet food prepared for that species and sold in shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 food	compound
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 food	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 species	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 species	det
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prepared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sold	cc
8	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 prepared	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 shops	case
10	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	participle		Pet food not said here				for that species	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for species=Beneficiary
2	sell	participle				shops			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes and the sweetener xylitol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 garlic	punct
3	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Onions	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chocolate	punct
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Onions	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grapes	punct
7	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Onions	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 xylitol	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 xylitol	det
10	sweetener	sweetener	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 xylitol	compound
11	xylitol	xylitol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Onions	conj

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

Option 4

Fresh drinking water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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