Exam question 4 · Life cycles

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the germination of most seeds.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, germinate · To what, where: response, germination, most seeds

This is exam question 4 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	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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 germination	det
13	germination	germination	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 seeds	case
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 seeds	amod
16	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 germination	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the germination of most seeds		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus germination=Experiencer
5	germinate			most seeds		nom germination «process 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 requires soil rich in sugar

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 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 requires	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 sugar	case
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	soil		sugar		rich property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soil=Precondition

Option 2

It requires light, but not water

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 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 water	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	light				water obl	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Precondition

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It requires water, air and warmth, but not light

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 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 air	punct
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 warmth	cc
7	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 light	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 light	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 light	advmod
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	water and air and warmth				light obl	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Precondition

Option 4

It requires darkness and the absence of air

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 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 absence	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 absence	det
6	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 darkness	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 absence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	darkness and the absence of air					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme darkness=Precondition
2	absent			air					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

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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