Exam question 2 · Famous discoveries told as stories

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the contribution of Antoine Lavoisier?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, contribute · To what, where: contribution, Antoine Lavoisier

This is exam question 2 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	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 contribution	det
10	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Lavoisier	case
12	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Lavoisier	compound
13	Lavoisier	Lavoisier	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 contribution	nmod
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 contribution of Antoine Lavoisier	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	contribute		Antoine Lavoisier		nom contribution «act transitive»: of=patient

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

He photographed the structure of DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 photographed	nsubj
2	photographed	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 structure	det
4	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photographed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 DNA	case
6	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 structure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	photograph	past	He	the structure of DNA					vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent structure=Theme

Option 2

He isolated polonium and radium from ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 isolated	nsubj
2	isolated	isolate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	polonium	polonium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 isolated	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 radium	cc
5	radium	radium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 polonium	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 ore	case
7	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 isolated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	isolate	past	He	polonium and radium		ore			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent polonium=Patient from ore=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He demonstrated by weighing that matter is conserved in reactions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 demonstrated	nsubj
2	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 weighing	mark
4	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 demonstrated	advcl
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conserved	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 conserved	aux:pass
8	conserved	conserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 weighing	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 reactions	case
10	reactions	reaction	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 conserved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	demonstrate	past	He			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weigh	gerund	He not said here			tree rules
3	conserve	present · passive		that matter	reactions	tree rules

Option 4

He arranged the elements upon cards into a table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arranged	nsubj
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elements	det
4	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arranged	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 cards	case
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arranged	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arranged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	He	the elements		a table		upon cards	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent element=Theme upon card=Destination

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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