Exam question 1 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the phenomenon termed inattentional blindness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phenomenon · What happens: follow, characteris, term · To what, where: inattentional blindness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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	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 phenomenon	det
10	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 termed	nsubj
11	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 characterises	ccomp
12	inattentional	inattentional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blindness	amod
13	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 termed	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present			of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	term	past	the phenomenon	inattentional blindness		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blindness=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The failure to perceive something in plain view because attention is directed elsewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 failure	det
2	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceive	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 perceive	mark
4	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 perceive	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 view	case
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 view	amod
8	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceive	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 directed	mark
10	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 directed	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 directed	aux:pass
12	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 perceive	advcl
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	12 directed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	to-infinitive	the failure	something		plain view			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	direct	present · passive		attention				elsewhere property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

The deliberate closing of the eyes when a person is frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 closing	det
2	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 closing	amod
3	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eyes	det
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closing	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 frightened	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	aux:pass
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 closing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	present · passive		a person					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	close			the eyes					nom closing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The inability to perceive colours in conditions of dim light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inability	det
2	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 perceive	mark
4	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 inability	acl
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 perceive	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 conditions	case
7	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 perceive	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 light	case
9	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conditions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	to-infinitive		colours		conditions of dim light			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus
2	condition			dim light					nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The total loss of sight occasioned by excessive use of screens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loss	det
2	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loss	compound
3	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sight	case
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loss	nmod
6	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loss	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 use	case
8	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	amod
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occasioned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 screens	case
11	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	participle		the total loss of sight not said here				by excessive use of screens	tree rules
2	use			screens					nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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