Exam question 1 · Respecting wild animals

Identify the principal reason for which comestibles must not be retained within a tent in territory inhabited by bears.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, not retain, inhabit · To what, where: principal reason, comestibles, territory

This is exam question 1 of lesson 70 «Respecting wild 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	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	11 retained	obl
7	comestibles	comestible	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 retained	nsubj:pass
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 retained	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 retained	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 retained	aux:pass
11	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
12	within	within	ADP	_	14 tent	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tent	det
14	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retained	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 territory	case
16	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retained	obl
17	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 territory	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 bears	case
19	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 inhabited	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	not retain	must · passive		comestibles	territory	for the principal reason; within a tent	tree rules
3	inhabit	participle		territory not said here		by bears	tree rules

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

Tents are too small to contain provisions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 contain	mark
6	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 contain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tents					small property	tree rules
2	contain	to-infinitive	Tents not said here	provisions					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot provision=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bears are attracted by the odour of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attracted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attracted	aux:pass
3	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 odour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 odour	det
6	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attracted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 odour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present · passive	the odour of food	Bears					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

Food stored in tents spoils within the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoils	nsubj
2	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Food	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 tents	case
4	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stored	obl
5	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoils	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	participle		Food not said here		tents			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location
2	spoil	present	Food				hour		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Bears are attracted by the colour of tents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attracted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attracted	aux:pass
3	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 colour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attracted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tents	case
8	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present · passive	the colour of tents	Bears					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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