Exam question 2 · Chores you skipped

Identify the principal reason for which a pet animal requires daily attention to its food and water.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pet animal · What happens: identify, require · To what, where: principal reason, daily attention

This is exam question 2 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 requires	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	compound
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requires	nsubj
10	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
11	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 attention	amod
12	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requires	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 food	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 food	nmod:poss
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requires	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 water	cc
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 food	conj
18	.	.	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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	require	present	a pet animal	daily attention				for the principal reason; to animal's food and water	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attention=Precondition

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

It is capable of feeding itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 capable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 capable	cop
3	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 feeding	mark
5	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 capable	advcl
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 feeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					capable property	tree rules
2	feed	gerund		itself = it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It requires food only weekly and suffers no harm from an occasional omission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 weekly	advmod
5	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	2 requires	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 suffers	cc
7	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 requires	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suffers	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 omission	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 omission	det
12	occasional	occasional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 omission	amod
13	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suffers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	food				weekly property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Precondition
2	suffer	present		no harm		a occasional omission			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is wholly dependent upon its keeper and cannot obtain them itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dependent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dependent	cop
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	4 dependent	advmod
4	dependent	dependent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 keeper	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 keeper	nmod:poss
7	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dependent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 obtain	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 obtain	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 obtain	advmod
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dependent	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obtain	obj
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 obtain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					upon its keeper; dependent, wholly property	tree rules
2	not obtain	can		them = they					tree rules

Option 4

It suffers no harm from neglect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 suffers	nsubj
2	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 harm	det
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suffers	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 neglect	case
6	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suffers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present	It	no harm		neglect			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus

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