Exam question 2 · Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★

Determine which of the following objects would be attracted by a magnet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, magnet · What happens: determine, follow, attract

This is exam question 2 of lesson 37 «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 attracted	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 objects	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 objects	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 objects	amod
6	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attracted	obl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 attracted	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 attracted	aux:pass
9	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 magnet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 magnet	det
12	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attracted	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	attract	would · passive	a magnet	of the following objects	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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

A pure gold coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A length of copper wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 length	det
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wire	case
4	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wire	compound
5	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod

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

Option 3

An aluminium drinks can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drinks	det
2	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	compound
3	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 can	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A steel paperclip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 paperclip	det
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paperclip	compound
3	paperclip	paperclip	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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