Exam question 2 · Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows…

Identify the muscle principally responsible for the flexion of the arm at the elbow.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 360 «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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 muscle	det
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	5 responsible	advmod
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 muscle	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 flexion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flexion	det
8	flexion	flexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 responsible	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arm	det
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flexion	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 elbow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 elbow	det
14	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arm	nmod
15	.	.	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 muscle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent muscle=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 gluteus maximus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maximus	det
2	gluteus	gluteus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maximus	compound
3	maximus	maximus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The biceps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The triceps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The muscle of the calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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