Exam question 3 · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the vision of cats.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, vision

This is exam question 3 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	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	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vision	det
13	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cats	case
15	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vision	nmod
16	.	.	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; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the vision of cats		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vision=Experiencer

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 right answer

They see much better than people in dim light, but not in total darkness

The tree, 14 words

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 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 see	obl
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 light	case
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 light	amod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 darkness	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 darkness	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 darkness	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
14	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 darkness	amod
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	They	better					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They see perfectly 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 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 darkness	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 darkness	amod
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	They			total darkness		perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They see less well than people in dim 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 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 see	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 well	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 light	case
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 light	amod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	They			dim light		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They see by means of echoes in the dark

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 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 means	case
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 echoes	case
6	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 echoes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	present						of echoes in the dark	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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