Exam question 1 · Allergies, horses and farm animals

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the cause of allergy to pets?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, cause · To what, where: cause, allergy

This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Allergies, horses and farm 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	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	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 allergy	case
12	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 pets	case
14	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
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 cause of allergy	of the following statements; to pets; accurately property	tree rules
3	cause		allergy		nom cause «event 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

The pet's diet of meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 diet	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 pet	case
4	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 diet	nmod

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

Option 2

The colour of the pet's fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fur	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 pet	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The noise made by the pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 noise	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 pet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pet	det
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		the noise not said here				by the pet	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proteins present in pet skin flakes and saliva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proteins	protein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 present	nsubj
2	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 flakes	case
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flakes	compound
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flakes	compound
6	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 present	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saliva	cc
8	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	present	Proteins			pet skin flakes and saliva			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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