Exam question 3 · Life cycles

Identify the stage of a butterfly's life cycle in which the greater part of feeding and growth occurs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, greater part · What happens: identify, occur · To what, where: stage, life cycle

This is exam question 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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 stage	det
3	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 cycle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 butterfly	det
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cycle	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 butterfly	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cycle	compound
9	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stage	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 occurs	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occurs	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 feeding	case
16	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 growth	cc
18	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feeding	conj
19	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cycle	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the stage of a butterfly's life cycle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stage=Theme
2	occur	present	the greater part of feeding and growth			a butterfly's life cycle			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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 chrysalis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chrysalis	det
2	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The adult butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butterfly	det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 butterfly	amod
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The caterpillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caterpillar	det
2	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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