Exam question 3 · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the colour of human blood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, colour

This is exam question 3 of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colour	det
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 blood	case
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blood	amod
16	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 colour	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the colour of human blood		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus colour=Experiencer

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 is blue whilst within the veins

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	3 blue	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blue	cop
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	7 veins	case
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 veins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 veins	det
7	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					whilst the veins; blue property	tree rules

Option 2

It is colourless within the body

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	3 colourless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 colourless	cop
3	colourless	colourless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colourless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					within the body; colourless property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is invariably red, varying only in shade

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	4 red	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 varying	punct
6	varying	vary	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 red	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 shade	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 shade	case
9	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 varying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					invariably, red property	tree rules
2	vary	gerund		shade					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer shade=Patient

Option 4

It becomes red only upon contact with air

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 contact	amod
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 contact	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 contact	case
6	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contact	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	red contact with air					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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