Exam question 4 · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

Ascertain the agent which calms the burning sensation produced by capsaicin most effectively.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, agent · What happens: ascertain, calm, burn, produce · To what, where: agent, burning sensation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 calms	nsubj
5	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agent	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sensation	det
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sensation	amod
8	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calms	obj
9	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sensation	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 capsaicin	case
11	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 produced	obl
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 effectively	advmod
13	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	9 produced	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the agent		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agent=Topic
2	calm	present	the agent	the burning sensation		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sensation=Experiencer
3	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	produce	participle		the burning sensation not said here	by capsaicin; effectively property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Common salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 salt	amod
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	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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