Exam question 2 · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…

Identify the principal reason for which fruit and vegetables from the shop are washed before eating.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, wash, eat · To what, where: principal reason, fruit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, sleep and safe food» 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	DET	PronType=Int	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 washed	nsubj:pass
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 vegetables	cc
9	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fruit	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shop	det
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vegetables	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 washed	aux:pass
14	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 eating	mark
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 washed	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	wash	present · passive		which fruit and vegetables from the shop	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Unwashed fruit is illegal to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unwashed	unwashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fruit	amod
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illegal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illegal	cop
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 illegal	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Unwashed fruit					illegal property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	Unwashed fruit not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Washing preserves their colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 preserves	amod
2	preserves	preserve	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 colour	nmod:poss
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 preserves	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Washing makes them sweeter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Washing	them = they				sweet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They may carry dirt or chemicals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 chemicals	cc
6	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dirt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	may	They	dirt or chemicals					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme

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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