Exam question 3 · The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"

Determine the most likely cause of death of a classroom goldfish aged six years, in the absence of other evidence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, age, cause, absent · To what, where: likely cause, absence, classroom goldfish, death, other evidence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 168 «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 goldfish	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 goldfish	det
10	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goldfish	compound
11	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
12	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 goldfish	acl
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 aged	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 absence	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 absence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 absence	det
18	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 evidence	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 evidence	amod
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 absence	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the likely cause of death of a classroom goldfish	the absence of other evidence		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	age	participle		a classroom goldfish not said here		year	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cause			death			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
4	absent			other evidence			nom absence «state 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 · ← Mova's choice

Excessive size of the aquarium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 size	amod
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 aquarium	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 aquarium	det
5	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 size	nmod

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

Option 2

Habitual feeding upon crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habitual	habitual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feeding	amod
2	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 crisps	case
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeding	nmod

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

Option 3

Deliberate interference by a pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 interference	amod
2	interference	interference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 pupil	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interference	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interfere		a pupil						nom interference «communication intransitive»: by=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Natural ageing over a long life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ageing	amod
2	ageing	ageing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 life	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 life	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ageing	nmod

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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