Exam question 2 · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

Identify the classification of whales, having regard to the facts that they breathe air and nourish their young with milk.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, facts · What happens: identify, have, breathe, nourish, classify · To what, where: classification, regard, facts, young, whales

This is exam question 2 of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 classification	det
3	classification	classification	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 whales	case
5	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 classification	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
8	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 facts	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 facts	det
11	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 having	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 breathe	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 breathe	nsubj
14	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 facts	acl:relcl
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breathe	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nourish	cc
17	nourish	nourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 breathe	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 young	nmod:poss
19	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nourish	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 milk	case
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nourish	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the classification of whales		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent classification=Theme
2	have	gerund	you not said here	regard	to the facts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Patient
3	breathe	present	facts = fact	the facts		tree rules
4	nourish	present	facts = fact not said here	facts's young	with milk	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent young=Patient with milk=Instrument
5	classify			whales		nom classification «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 · ← Mova's choice

Reptiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mammals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Amphibians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amphibians	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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