Exam question 3 · The rumour that grows

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the ingestion of a cherry stone.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, ingest · To what, where: response, ingestion, cherry stone

This is exam question 3 of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» 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	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ingestion	det
11	ingestion	ingestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 stone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
14	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stone	compound
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ingestion	nmod
16	.	.	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	the established facts not said here	the ingestion of a cherry stone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ingestion=Experiencer
4	ingest			a cherry stone		nom ingestion «act transitive»: of=patient

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

It germinates within the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 germinates	nsubj
2	germinates	germinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	within	within	ADP	_	5 stomach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stomach	det
5	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 germinates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	germinate	present	It					within the stomach	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It produces branches within weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 produces	nsubj
2	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produces	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produces	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	It	branches			week		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Result

Option 3

It remains in the body for many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 body	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It			the body	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It ordinarily passes through the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passes	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 passes	advmod
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	It			the body		ordinarily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through body=Location

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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