Exam question 2 · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Identify the principal reason for which ice affords so little grip to footwear.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, ice · What happens: identify, afford · To what, where: principal reason, little grip

This is exam question 2 of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 affords	obl
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 affords	nsubj
8	affords	afford	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grip	amod
11	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 affords	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 footwear	case
13	footwear	footwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 affords	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	afford	present	ice	little grip				for the principal reason; to footwear	tree rules

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

Its surface bears an exceedingly thin and slippery layer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bears	nmod:poss
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 layer	det
5	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	6 thin	advmod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 layer	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slippery	cc
8	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thin	conj
9	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	nmod

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

Option 2

It attracts the soles of shoes by magnetism

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	2 attracts	nsubj
2	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soles	det
4	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attracts	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 shoes	case
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soles	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 magnetism	case
8	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attracts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	It	the soles of shoes				by magnetism	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sole=Patient

Option 3

It is warmer than the air above it

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 warmer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warmer	cop
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmer	obl
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than the air above air; warm property	tree rules

Option 4

Its surface is excessively rough, uneven and full of sharp points

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 surface	nmod:poss
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rough	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rough	cop
4	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	5 rough	advmod
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 uneven	punct
7	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rough	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 full	cc
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rough	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 points	case
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 points	amod
12	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its surface	excessively, rough property	tree rules
2	be		Its surface not said here		tree rules
3	be		Its surface not said here	of sharp points	tree rules

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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