Exam question 3 · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…

Identify the bone of the human body which is of the greatest length.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 bone	det
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 body	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 length	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 length	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 length	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 length	det
12	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 length	amod
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	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 bone of the human body					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
2	is	present	the human body					of the greatest length	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 smallest bone of the ear

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	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 bone	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The femur, or thigh bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 femur	det
2	femur	femur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bone	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 bone	cc
5	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bone	compound
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 femur	conj

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

Option 3

The bone of the upper arm

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	_	6 arm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arm	det
5	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bone	nmod

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

Option 4

The spinal column

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 column	det
2	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 column	amod
3	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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