Exam question 1 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

Identify the part of the sugar cane plant in which sugar is stored.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, store · To what, where: part, sugar, cane plant

This is exam question 1 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plant	det
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cane	compound
7	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plant	compound
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stored	obl
11	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stored	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stored	aux:pass
13	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 plant	acl:relcl
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 part of the cane plant					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	store	present · passive		sugar		the cane plant			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location

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 flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The leaves exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 leaves	advmod

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

Option 3

The roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roots	det
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The stems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stems	det
2	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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