Exam question 1 · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the dietary requirement of guinea pigs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, require · To what, where: dietary requirement, guinea pigs

This is exam question 1 of lesson 63 «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» 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	11 requirement	det
10	dietary	dietary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 requirement	amod
11	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pigs	case
13	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pigs	compound
14	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 requirement	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the dietary requirement of guinea pigs	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	require		guinea pigs		nom requirement «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

They must be fed meat once a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 meat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 meat	cop
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meat	amod
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 meat	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle							vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	They	fed meat				once property	tree rules

Option 2

They require only dry pellets and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 pellets	advmod
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pellets	amod
5	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 require	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pellets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	They	dry pellets and water					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pellet=Precondition

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

They cannot produce vitamin C and require fresh vegetables daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 produce	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 produce	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 produce	advmod
4	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 C	compound
6	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 produce	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 require	cc
8	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 produce	conj
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vegetables	amod
10	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 require	obj
11	daily	daily	ADV	_	8 require	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not produce	can	They	vitamin C					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Result
2	require	present	They not said here	fresh vegetables				daily property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vegetable=Precondition

Option 4

They produce vitamin C abundantly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 produce	nsubj
2	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 C	compound
4	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produce	obj
5	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	_	2 produce	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	They	vitamin C				abundantly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Result

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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