Exam question 1 · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

Identify the material of which the visible portion of a hair is composed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, compose · To what, where: material, visible portion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 355 «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» 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 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 composed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 portion	det
7	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 portion	amod
8	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 composed	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hair	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 portion	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 composed	aux:pass
13	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 material	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 material					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme
2	compose	present · passive		the visible portion of a hair				of the material	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

Hardened perspiration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perspiration	amod
2	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harden	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Keratin, which is dead tissue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keratin	Keratin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tissue	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tissue	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tissue	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tissue	amod
6	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keratin	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Keratin	dead tissue					tree rules

Option 3

Living tissue supplied with nerves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tissue	amod
2	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tissue	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 nerves	case
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 supplied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	supply	participle		Living tissue not said here				with nerves	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nerve=Theme

Option 4

Dried blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blood	amod
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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