Exam question 1 · Insects as food in other countries

Identify the principal nutritional merit of edible insects such as crickets and mealworms.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal nutritional merit

This is exam question 1 of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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	5 merit	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 merit	amod
4	nutritional	nutritional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 merit	amod
5	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 insects	case
7	edible	edible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 insects	amod
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 merit	nmod
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 crickets	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 insects	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mealworms	cc
13	mealworms	mealworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crickets	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal nutritional merit of edible insects such crickets and mealworms					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent merit=Theme

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

A high content of protein, together with fats and minerals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 content	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 content	amod
3	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 protein	case
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 content	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fats	punct
7	together	together	ADV	_	9 fats	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 fats	case
9	fats	fat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 content	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 minerals	cc
11	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fats	conj

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

Option 2

An absence of any nutritional value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 value	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 value	det
5	nutritional	nutritional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent			any nutritional value					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A high content of sugar and nothing else of nutritional value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 content	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 content	amod
3	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 content	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 content	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 value	case
10	nutritional	nutritional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 value	amod
11	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nmod

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

Option 4

A high content of water exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 content	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 content	amod
3	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 content	nmod
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 content	advmod

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

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