Exam question 3 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the sensation produced by capsaicin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, produce · To what, where: sensation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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	10 sensation	det
10	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sensation	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 capsaicin	case
13	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 produced	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the sensation	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	produce	participle	the sensation not said here	by capsaicin	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 raises the temperature of the mouth to boiling point

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	2 raises	nsubj
2	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 temperature	det
4	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raises	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouth	det
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 temperature	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 point	case
9	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 point	compound
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	It	the temperature of the mouth		boiling point			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme to point=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It activates the sensors for heat without raising the temperature

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	2 activates	nsubj
2	activates	activate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sensors	det
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 activates	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 heat	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 activates	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 raising	mark
8	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 activates	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 temperature	det
10	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	activate	present	It	the sensors				for heat	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient
2	raise	gerund		the temperature					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme

Option 3

It destroys the taste buds upon contact

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	2 destroys	nsubj
2	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buds	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buds	compound
5	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 destroys	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 contact	case
7	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 destroys	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	present	It	the taste buds				upon contact	vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument bud=Patient

Option 4

It activates the sensors for cold

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	2 activates	nsubj
2	activates	activate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sensors	det
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 activates	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cold	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 activates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	activate	present	It	the sensors				for cold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient

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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