Exam question 2 · The environment

Identify the principal cause to which the present warming of the earth is attributed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal, earth · What happens: identify, cause, attribute, warm · To what, where: present warming

This is exam question 2 of lesson 47 «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 principal	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nsubj
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 attributed	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 warming	det
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 warming	amod
9	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attributed	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warming	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 attributed	aux:pass
14	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cause	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cause	present	the principal		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	attribute	present · passive		the present warming of the earth	tree rules
4	warm		the earth		nom warming «process intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The respiration of an increased population of animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 respiration	det
2	respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 population	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 population	det
5	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 population	amod
6	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respiration	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 population	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	respire		a increased population of animals						nom respiration «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

A progressive diminution of the distance between the earth and the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 diminution	det
2	progressive	progressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 diminution	amod
3	diminution	diminution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 distance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diminution	nmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Sun	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun	det
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 earth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish		the distance between the earth and the Sun						nom diminution «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

An increase in the frequency of volcanic eruptions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 increase	det
2	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 frequency	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frequency	det
5	frequency	frequency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increase	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 eruptions	case
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eruptions	amod
8	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frequency	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Human activity, in particular the combustion of coal, oil and gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 activity	amod
2	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 combustion	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 particular	case
5	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 combustion	amod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 combustion	det
7	combustion	combustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 activity	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 coal	case
9	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 combustion	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 oil	punct
11	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 combustion	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gas	cc
13	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 oil	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combust		coal						nom combustion «process intransitive»: of=agent

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