Exam question 4 · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heart rates of animals.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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	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	1 Select	xcomp
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	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rates	det
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rates	compound
12	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 animals	case
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rates	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	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
3	concern	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Heart rate bears no relation to the size of the animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rate	compound
2	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 relation	det
5	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relation	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 animal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Smaller animals generally possess faster heart rates than larger animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	nsubj
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	4 possess	advmod
4	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 rates	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rates	compound
7	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 animals	case
9	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	Smaller animals	faster heart rates				than larger animals; generally property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=Theme

Option 3

All mammals possess identical heart rates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mammals	det
2	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possess	nsubj
3	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rates	amod
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rates	compound
6	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	all mammals	identical heart rates					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=Theme

Option 4

Larger animals generally possess faster heart rates than smaller animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	nsubj
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	4 possess	advmod
4	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 rates	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rates	compound
7	rates	rate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 animals	case
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	Larger animals	faster heart rates				than smaller animals; generally property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=Theme

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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