Exam question 2 · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

Identify the principal cause of many burns suffered by children at home.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, suffer, cause · To what, where: principal cause, many burns, home

This is exam question 2 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 burns	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 burns	amod
7	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nmod
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 burns	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 suffered	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 suffered	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of many burns			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	suffer	participle		many burns not said here	home	by children	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	cause			many burns			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

Cold metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 metal	amod
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Electric lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lights	amod
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hot water and steam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 steam	cc
4	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	conj

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

Option 4

Sunlight through windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	3 windows	case
3	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sunlight	nmod

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

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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