Exam question 4 · Caring for the environment
It is given that a forest is felled in its entirety. Determine the principal consequence for the wild creatures resident therein.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, fell, determine · To what, where: It, forest, entirety, principal consequence
This is exam question 4 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a forest is felled in its entirety.
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 felled | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 felled | aux:pass |
| 8 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 entirety | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 entirety | nmod:poss |
| 11 | entirety | entirety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felled | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fell | present · passive | a forest | forest's entirety | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the principal consequence for the wild creatures resident therein.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 consequence | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 consequence | amod |
| 4 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 resident | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 resident | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 resident | compound |
| 9 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obl |
| 10 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 1 Determine | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the principal consequence | for the creatures resident; therein property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Their habitat is enlarged
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 habitat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | habitat | habitat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enlarged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enlarged | aux:pass |
| 4 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlarge | present · passive | Their habitat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
Their food supply is increased
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 supply | nmod:poss |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supply | compound |
| 3 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 increased | aux:pass |
| 5 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | present · passive | Their food supply | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Their habitat is destroyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 habitat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | habitat | habitat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | present · passive | Their habitat | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Their number is necessarily augmented
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 number | nmod:poss |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 augmented | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 augmented | aux:pass |
| 4 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 5 augmented | advmod |
| 5 | augmented | augment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | augment | present · passive | Their number | necessarily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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