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Exam question 2 · Birds and baby animals

It is given that uncooked rice is thrown at a wedding and subsequently eaten by birds. Select the response consistent with the established facts.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, throw, eat, select, establish · To what, where: It, wedding, response

This is exam question 2 of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: It is given that uncooked rice is thrown at a wedding and subsequently eaten by birds.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rice	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 rice	det
5	uncooked	uncooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rice	amod
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 wedding	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wedding	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eaten	cc
13	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	14 eaten	advmod
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 thrown	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 birds	case
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl:agent
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	throw	present · passive				a wedding		give that uncooked rice	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: at wedding=Destination
3	eat	participle						subsequently property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Select the response consistent with the established facts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No harm of the kind alleged results, birds habitually eating grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 harm	det
2	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 results	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 results	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 results	amod
6	alleged	alleged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 results	amod
7	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 harm	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 birds	punct
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 results	conj
10	habitually	habitually	ADV	_	11 eating	advmod
11	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 birds	acl
12	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	birds not said here	grain				habitually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
2	harm			the kind alleged results and birds					nom harm «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The birds are rendered unable to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	aux:pass
4	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendered	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present · passive		the birds				unable property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only rice that has been cooked is consumed by birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 rice	advmod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consumed	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cooked	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cooked	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cooked	aux:pass
6	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rice	acl:relcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consumed	aux:pass
8	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 birds	case
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 consumed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · perfect · passive		rice					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	consume	present · passive	birds	rice					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 4

The birds' stomachs rupture owing to the swelling of the rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stomachs	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 birds	case
4	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rupture	nsubj
5	rupture	rupture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	owing	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rupture	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 swelling	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swelling	det
9	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 rice	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rice	det
12	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swelling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rupture	present	the birds's stomachs						tree rules
2	owe	gerund	the birds's stomachs not said here					to the swelling of the rice goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to swelling=Goal
3	swell		the rice						nom swelling «state intransitive»: of=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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