Exam question 2 · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning red-green colour blindness.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blindness	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 red	punct
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blindness	amod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blindness	compound
14	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	red green colour blindness		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blindness=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

It is common, affecting approximately one man in twelve of European descent

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 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 affecting	punct
5	affecting	affect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 common	advcl
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 man	nummod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affecting	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 twelve	case
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 affecting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 descent	case
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 descent	amod
13	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twelve	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					common property	tree rules
2	affect	gerund		one man		twelve of European descent			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer

Option 2

It affects men and women in exactly equal measure in every population studied

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	2 affects	nsubj
2	affects	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 affects	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 women	cc
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 measure	case
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 equal	advmod
8	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 measure	amod
9	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 affects	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 population	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 population	det
12	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 affects	obl
13	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 population	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	present	It	men and women		equal measure		in every population	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
2	study	participle		every population not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is unknown to medical science

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 unknown	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unknown	cop
3	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 science	case
5	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 science	amod
6	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unknown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to medical science; unknown property	tree rules

Option 4

It renders the affected person unable to perceive any colour whatsoever

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	2 renders	nsubj
2	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	affected	affected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 renders	obj
6	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 renders	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 perceive	mark
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unable	xcomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 colour	det
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceive	obj
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	8 perceive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present	It	the affected person				unable property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	perceive	to-infinitive		any colour				whatsoever property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

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