Exam question 2 · Mammals and how they care for their young

Identify, from the animals hereinafter enumerated, that mammal which lays eggs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, animals, mammal · What happens: identify, enumerate, lay · To what, where: animals, eggs

This is exam question 2 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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	_	5 animals	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
6	hereinafter	hereinafter	ADV	_	7 enumerated	advmod
7	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mammal	punct
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 mammal	det
10	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	appos
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lays	nsubj
12	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mammal	acl:relcl
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lays	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the animals		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	enumerate	past	the animals not said here		hereinafter property	tree rules
3	lay	present	that mammal	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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

The kangaroo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kangaroo	det
2	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The koala

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 koala	det
2	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The platypus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 platypus	det
2	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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