Exam question 3 · Animals in the sea and the river

Identify the parent which, among seahorses, carries the eggs and gives birth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, carry, give · To what, where: parent, eggs, birth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 11 «Animals in the sea and the river» 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

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	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seahorses	punct
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 seahorses	case
7	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carries	punct
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eggs	det
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carries	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gives	cc
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carries	conj
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the parent	among seahorses	tree rules
2	carry	present		the eggs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	give	present		birth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

The female

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 female	det
2	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Neither, the eggs being abandoned upon rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 abandoned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eggs	det
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 abandoned	nsubj:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 abandoned	aux:pass
6	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 rocks	case
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 abandoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	gerund · passive		the eggs				upon rocks; neither property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The male

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 male	det
2	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Both parents equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	equally	equally	ADV	_	2 parents	advmod

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

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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