Exam question 1 · Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids

Identify the term by which the reaction between an acid and an alkali is designated.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: term, reaction

This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids» of the chemistry 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 designated	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reaction	det
7	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 designated	nsubj:pass
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 acid	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 acid	det
10	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaction	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 alkali	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 alkali	det
13	alkali	alkali	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acid	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 designated	aux:pass
15	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 term	acl:relcl
16	.	.	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 term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	designate	present · passive	the term	the reaction between a acid and a alkali					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

Condensation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condensation	condensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Neutralisation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neutralisation	neutralisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fermentation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fermentation	fermentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Evaporation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Evaporation	evaporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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