Exam question 1 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

Identify the investigator who, in the year 1665, first applied the term «cell» to structures observed within cork.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, apply, observe · To what, where: investigator, term, structures

This is exam question 1 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» of the biology 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 investigator	det
3	investigator	investigator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	1665	1665	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 year	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 applied	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 applied	advmod
12	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 term	det
14	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 applied	obj
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 cell	punct
16	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 term	appos
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 cell	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 structures	case
19	structures	structure	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 applied	obl
20	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 structures	acl
21	within	within	ADP	_	22 cork	case
22	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 observed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the investigator	year		tree rules
2	apply	past	you not said here	the term		to structures; first property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme
3	observe	participle		structures not said here		within cork	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Robert Hooke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Hooke	Hooke	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Robert	flat

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

Option 2

Charles Darwin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Charles	flat

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

Option 3

Louis Pasteur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Louis	flat

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

Option 4

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antonie	Antonie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Antonie	flat
3	Leeuwenhoek	Leeuwenhoek	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Antonie	flat

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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