Exam question 1 · The heart and blood

Identify the origin of the sounds perceived through a stethoscope placed upon the chest.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» 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 origin	det
3	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perceived	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sounds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sounds	det
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 origin	nmod
7	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 stethoscope	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stethoscope	det
10	stethoscope	stethoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perceived	obl
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stethoscope	acl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 chest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chest	det
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	perceive	past	the origin of the sounds		a stethoscope	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	place	participle		a stethoscope not said here	the chest	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon chest=Destination

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 contraction of the lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contract			the lungs					nom contraction «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The closure of the valves of the heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 closure	det
2	closure	closure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 valves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valves	det
5	valves	valve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 closure	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 heart	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 valves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close		the valves of the heart						nom closure «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The flow of blood within the veins of the arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flow	det
2	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flow	nmod
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 veins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 veins	det
7	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flow	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 arm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arm	det
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 veins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow		blood					within the veins of the arm	nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent within=obl

Option 4

The movement of the ribs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move			the ribs					nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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