Exam question 4 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning peripheral vision.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, peripheral vision

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	peripheral	peripheral	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vision	compound
13	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	peripheral vision		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vision=Experiencer

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

It is equal in every respect to central vision

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 equal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 equal	cop
3	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 respect	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 respect	det
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 equal	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 vision	case
8	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vision	amod
9	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			every respect to central vision		equal property	tree rules

Option 2

It functions solely in conditions of darkness

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 functions	nsubj
2	functions	function	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 functions	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 conditions	case
5	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 functions	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 darkness	case
7	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conditions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	function	present	It			conditions of darkness		solely property	vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	condition			darkness					nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It is proficient in the perception of detail but unable to detect movement

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 proficient	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proficient	cop
3	proficient	proficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 perception	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 perception	det
6	perception	perception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proficient	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 detail	case
8	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perception	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 unable	cc
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proficient	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 detect	mark
12	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 detect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		the perception of detail	proficient property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	detect	to-infinitive		movement			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus
4	perceive			detail			nom perception «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is proficient in the detection of movement but deficient in the perception of detail

The tree, 15 words

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 proficient	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proficient	cop
3	proficient	proficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 detection	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 detection	det
6	detection	detection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proficient	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 movement	case
8	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 detection	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 deficient	cc
10	deficient	deficient	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 detection	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 perception	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 perception	det
13	perception	perception	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deficient	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 detail	case
15	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perception	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		the detection of movement but deficient in the perception of detail	proficient property	tree rules
2	detect			movement			nom detection «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	perceive			detail			nom perception «cognition 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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