Exam question 3 · Keeping garden wildlife safe

Which of the following most accurately characterises slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, respect · To what, where: slug pellets, other creatures

This is exam question 3 of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
8	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pellets	compound
9	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 characterises	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 poison	cc
11	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poison	compound
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pellets	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poison	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 creatures	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creatures	amod
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 respect	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures	accurately property	tree rules
3	respect		other creatures		nom respect «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 are harmful solely to slugs and rats

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	3 harmful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmful	cop
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 harmful	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 slugs	case
6	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harmful	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rats	cc
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slugs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					to slugs and rats; harmful, solely property	tree rules

Option 2

They are harmful only when consumed by birds

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	3 harmful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmful	cop
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 consumed	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 consumed	advmod
6	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harmful	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consumed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					harmful property	tree rules
2	consume	participle	They not said here						vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

They may kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats

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	3 kill	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kill	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wildlife	cc
6	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pets	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slugs	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 slugs	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 slugs	advmod
10	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kill	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rats	cc
12	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slugs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	may	They	pets and wildlife				slugs and rats obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme

Option 4

They are harmless to any animal larger than a rat

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	3 harmless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harmless	obl
7	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 harmless	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 rat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rat	det
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 larger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					to any animal; harmless property	tree rules

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