Exam question 2 · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the comparative frequency of colour blindness in boys and girls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: comparative frequency

This is exam question 2 of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frequency	det
10	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frequency	amod
11	frequency	frequency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 blindness	case
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blindness	compound
14	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frequency	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 boys	case
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blindness	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 girls	cc
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boys	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the comparative frequency of colour blindness in boys and girls				of the following statements; accurately 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

It is considerably more frequent among girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frequent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frequent	cop
3	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 frequent	advmod
5	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 girls	case
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frequent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					among girls; frequent property	tree rules

Option 2

It is confined entirely to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confined	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confined	aux:pass
3	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 confined	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	present · passive		It	adults			entirely property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to adult=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is considerably more frequent among boys, approximately one in twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frequent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frequent	cop
3	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	5 frequent	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 frequent	advmod
5	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 boys	case
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frequent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 frequent	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 twelve	case
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					among boys; considerably, frequent property	tree rules

Option 4

It is equally frequent among boys and girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frequent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 frequent	cop
3	equally	equally	ADV	_	4 frequent	advmod
4	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	6 boys	case
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 frequent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 girls	cc
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boys	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					among boys and girls; equally, frequent property	tree rules

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