Exam question 2 · Metals and what they're good for

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises steel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: steel

This is exam question 2 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» 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	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	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		steel				of the following statements; accurately property	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 right answer

An alloy of iron with a small proportion of carbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alloy	det
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 iron	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 proportion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 proportion	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 proportion	amod
8	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 carbon	case
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proportion	nmod

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

Option 2

A compound of aluminium and oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 compound	det
2	compound	compound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 aluminium	case
4	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compound	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 oxygen	cc
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compound			aluminium					nom compound «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A pure element found free in nature in large lumps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 element	det
2	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 element	amod
3	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 nature	case
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lumps	case
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lumps	amod
10	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a pure element			nature		in large lumps; free property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

An alloy of copper with tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alloy	det
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 copper	case
4	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tin	case
6	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod

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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