Exam question 2 · Insects and spiders

Identify the means by which insects breathe.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, the, insects · What happens: identify, mean, breathe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 breathe	obl
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 breathe	nsubj
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	breathe	present	insects	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Through the antennae alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 antennae	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 antennae	det
3	antennae	antennae	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 antennae	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Through tiny holes along their bodies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 holes	case
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 holes	amod
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 bodies	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bodies	nmod:poss
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holes	nmod

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

Option 3

Through gills tucked away behind the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	2 gills	case
2	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gills	acl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 tucked	advmod
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck away	participle		gills not said here		the head		away property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent behind head=Trajectory

Option 4

Through a pair of lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 pair	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pair	det
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 lungs	case
5	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pair	nmod

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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