Exam question 1 · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the advantage of eyes positioned on the sides of the head?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, position · To what, where: advantage, eyes, sides

This is exam question 1 of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 advantage	det
10	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 advantage	nmod
13	positioned	position	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 eyes	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 positioned	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sides	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the advantage of eyes		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	position	participle	eyes not said here	the sides of the head		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

They permit vision almost all around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 permit	nsubj
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obj
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 around	advmod
6	around	around	ADV	_	2 permit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present	They	vision				around property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme

Option 2

They permit vision in total darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 permit	nsubj
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 darkness	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 darkness	amod
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present	They	vision		total darkness			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vision=Theme in darkness=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They permit the accurate judging of distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 permit	nsubj
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 judging	det
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 judging	amod
5	judging	judging	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 distance	case
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judging	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present	They	the accurate judging of distance					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judging=Theme
2	judge			distance					nom judging «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

They permit vision of ultraviolet light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 permit	nsubj
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vision	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present	They	vision of ultraviolet light					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme

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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