Exam question 3 · Food chains and food webs

Identify, from among the following, a decomposer.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, follow · To what, where: decomposer

This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 decomposer	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	9 decomposer	case
4	among	among	ADP	_	9 decomposer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 decomposer	det
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 decomposer	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 decomposer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 decomposer	det
9	decomposer	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
10	.	.	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 decomposer			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A fungus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fungus	det
2	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	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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