Exam question 2 · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

Identify the sole bone of the skull which is capable of movement.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sole bone · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: sole bone

This is exam question 2 of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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	4 bone	det
3	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bone	amod
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skull	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skull	det
7	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 capable	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 capable	cop
10	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bone	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 movement	case
12	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 capable	obl
13	.	.	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 sole bone of the skull					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
2	is	present	the sole bone of the skull					of movement; capable property	tree rules

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 cheekbone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The frontal bone of the forehead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	frontal	frontal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bone	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forehead	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forehead	det
6	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod

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

Option 3

The bone of the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 nose	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nose	det
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bone	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The mandible, or lower jaw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mandible	det
2	mandible	mandible	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jaw	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 jaw	cc
5	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 jaw	amod
6	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mandible	conj

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

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