Exam question 1 · Balance in a food web

State the approximate proportion of energy transferred from one step of a food chain to the next.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: transfer, step · To what, where: State approximate proportion, food chain

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Balance in a food web» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proportion	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proportion	amod
4	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 energy	case
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proportion	nmod
7	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 proportion	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 step	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 step	nummod
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transferred	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 chain	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chain	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chain	compound
14	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 step	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 next	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 next	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chain	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proportion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	participle		the State approximate proportion of energy not said here				from one step of a food chain to the next	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from step=Initial_Location
2	step			a food chain to the next					nom step «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nine tenths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenths	nummod
2	tenths	tenth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One tenth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenth	nummod
2	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

One half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 4

The whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whole	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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