Exam question 3 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

Identify the class of animals possessing smooth, moist skin and usually depositing their eggs in water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, animals · What happens: identify, possess, deposit · To what, where: class, smooth moist skin, eggs, water

This is exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» 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 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 class	nmod
6	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 animals	acl
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smooth	punct
9	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possessing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 depositing	cc
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 depositing	advmod
13	depositing	deposit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 possessing	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eggs	nmod:poss
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 depositing	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 depositing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the class of animals			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme
2	possess	gerund	animals not said here	smooth moist skin			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme
3	deposit	gerund	animals not said here	animals's eggs	water	usually property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in water=Destination

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 right answer

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.

Option 2

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 3

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 4

Birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	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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