Exam question 4 · Map reading puzzles

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning moss upon trees.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moss	amod
12	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 trees	case
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
15	.	.	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; upon trees; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

It grows only where sunlight falls

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 falls	advmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 falls	advmod
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	present	sunlight						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It grows only upon the north side

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 side	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It			the north side			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon side=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is not a reliable guide to north

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	6 guide	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guide	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 guide	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guide	det
5	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guide	amod
6	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 north	case
8	north	north	ADV	_	6 guide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a reliable guide				north property	tree rules

Option 4

It grows only upon the south side

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 side	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It			the south side			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon side=Location

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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