Exam question 1 · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

Identify the animal regarded as the largest known to have existed.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, regard, know, exist · To what, where: animal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 animal	acl
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 largest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 largest	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 regarded	obl:agent
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 largest	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 existed	mark
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 existed	aux
11	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 known	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the animal	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	regard	participle		the animal not said here	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	participle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	exist	to-infinitive · perfect			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

The African elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
2	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

The blue whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Argentinosaurus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The whale shark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shark	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shark	compound
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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