Exam question 1 · Migration and hibernation

Which of the following is designated by the term migration?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: following · What happens: follow, designate

This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 designated	csubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 designated	aux:pass
6	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 migration	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 migration	det
9	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 migration	compound
10	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 designated	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 designated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	designate	present · passive	following					by the term migration	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»

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

A change of colour to match the season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 colour	case
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 match	mark
6	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 season	det
8	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	to-infinitive					season		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	change		colour						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A long journey undertaken in search of food, warmth or a place to rear young

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 journey	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 journey	amod
3	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 journey	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 search	case
6	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertaken	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 warmth	punct
10	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 place	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rear	mark
15	rear	rear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 place	acl
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	undertake	participle	a long journey not said here	search of food and warmth or a place		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	rear	to-infinitive			young property	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	search		food and warmth or a place			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The storage of food against the winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storage	det
2	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storage	nmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 winter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store			food				against the winter	nom storage «act transitive»: of=patient against=obl

Option 4

A deep winter sleep with lowered body temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sleep	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	amod
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	compound
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 temperature	case
6	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 temperature	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 temperature	compound
8	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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