Exam question 1 · Classifying unusual animals

Identify, from among the following, the only mammals capable of true flight.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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	_	11 capable	punct
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	11 capable	mark
4	among	among	ADP	_	11 capable	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 capable	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 capable	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 following	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mammals	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mammals	amod
10	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 capable	nsubj
11	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 flight	case
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flight	amod
14	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 capable	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here						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

Ostriches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Flying squirrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 squirrels	amod
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Penguins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penguins	penguin	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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