Exam question 2 · Pets and farm animals

Identify the principal stimulus by which a bull is provoked to charge at a matador's cape.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal stimulus · What happens: identify, provoke, charge · To what, where: principal stimulus, bull, cape

This is exam question 2 of lesson 7 «Pets and farm 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

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 stimulus	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stimulus	amod
4	stimulus	stimulus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 provoked	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bull	det
8	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provoked	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 provoked	aux:pass
10	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stimulus	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 charge	mark
12	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 provoked	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 cape	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 matador	det
15	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cape	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 matador	case
17	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 charge	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal stimulus		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stimulus=Theme
2	provoke	present · passive	the principal stimulus	a bull		tree rules
3	charge	to-infinitive	the principal stimulus not said here		a matador's cape	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory

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 applause of the spectators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 applause	det
2	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 spectators	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spectators	det
5	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 applause	nmod

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

Option 2

The scent of the material

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scent	det
2	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 material	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 material	det
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scent			the material					nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The movement of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 movement	det
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 movement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move			the cape					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The red colour of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cape	det
6	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod

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

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