Exam question 2 · Sleep and dreams in people

Identify the stage of sleep during which the majority of vivid dreams are experienced.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, majority · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: stage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 363 «Sleep and dreams in people» 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 stage	det
3	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stage	nmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 experienced	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 majority	det
9	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 experienced	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dreams	case
11	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dreams	amod
12	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 majority	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 experienced	cop
14	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	parataxis
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 stage of sleep					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stage=Theme
2	is	present	the majority of vivid dreams					experienced 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 stage of light sleep at the onset of the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stage	det
2	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	compound
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stage	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 onset	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 onset	det
8	onset	onset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stage	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 onset	nmod

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

Option 2

The stage of deep sleep in the earliest hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stage	det
2	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stage	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hour	det
8	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 hour	amod
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stage	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stage of rapid eye movement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The state of full wakefulness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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