Exam question 2 · Separating mixtures

Identify the method most appropriate to the separation of steel paper clips from sand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, method, steel paper · What happens: identify, clip, separate · To what, where: sand

This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Separating mixtures» 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 method	det
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clips	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 appropriate	advmod
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 method	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 separation	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 separation	det
8	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 paper	case
10	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paper	compound
11	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 separation	nmod
12	clips	clip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 sand	case
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clips	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	clip	present	the method	sand	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sand=Source
3	separate		steel paper		nom separation «state intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

The application of a magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 application	det
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 magnet	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 magnet	det
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		a magnet						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Dissolution in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dissolution	nmod

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

Option 3

Chromatography

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chromatography	chromatography	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Distillation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Distillation	distillation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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