Exam question 1 · Famous discoveries told as stories

Identify the substance whose discovery is attributed to the observation by Alexander Fleming of mould upon a neglected culture dish in 1928.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Alexander Fleming · What happens: identify, attribute, neglect · To what, where: substance, discovery

This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» 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 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 discovery	nmod:poss
5	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attributed	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 attributed	aux:pass
7	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 observation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 observation	det
10	observation	observation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attributed	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Fleming	case
12	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fleming	compound
13	Fleming	Fleming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attributed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mould	case
15	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Fleming	nmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 dish	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dish	det
18	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 dish	amod
19	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dish	compound
20	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attributed	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1928	case
22	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 dish	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	attribute	present · passive	Alexander Fleming of mould	discovery	to the observation; upon a neglected culture dish in 1928	tree rules
3	neglect	participle				vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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

Oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Radium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radium	radium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Soda water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soda	Soda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Penicillin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Penicillin	penicillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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