Exam question 3 · Famous discoveries told as stories
It is given that Dmitri Mendeleev left vacant positions within his periodic table. Ascertain the purpose of the said vacancies.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dmitri, you, said vacancies · What happens: give, leave, ascertain, say, purpose · To what, where: It, vacant positions, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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
Sentence 1: It is given that Dmitri Mendeleev left vacant positions within his periodic table.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 5 | Dmitri | Dmitri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | Mendeleev | Mendeleev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dmitri | flat |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | ccomp |
| 8 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 positions | amod |
| 9 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 table | nmod:poss |
| 12 | periodic | periodic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 table | amod |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | Dmitri | vacant positions | within Dmitri's periodic table | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain the purpose of the said vacancies.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 vacancies | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vacancies | det |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vacancies | amod |
| 7 | vacancies | vacancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 purpose | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the purpose of the said vacancies | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | purpose | the said vacancies | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
The options
Option 1
To indicate elements known to be poisonous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 indicate | mark |
| 2 | indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 indicate | obj |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 elements | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 poisonous | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 poisonous | cop |
| 7 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 known | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | to-infinitive | elements | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot element=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | elements not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | poisonous property | tree rules |
Option 2
To separate metals from gases
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 separate | mark |
| 2 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separate | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 gases | case |
| 5 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separate | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | to-infinitive | metals | from gases | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent metal=Patient from gas=Co-Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
To mark elements discovered by alchemists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 mark | mark |
| 2 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mark | obj |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 elements | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 alchemists | case |
| 6 | alchemists | alchemist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discovered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | to-infinitive | elements | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent element=Destination | |||||
| 2 | discover | participle | elements not said here | by alchemists | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To accommodate elements not yet discovered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 accommodate | mark |
| 2 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accommodate | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 discovered | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 discovered | advmod |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 accommodate | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accommodate | to-infinitive | elements | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not discover | participle | yet | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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