Exam question 2 · Sleep and healthy eating

Which of the following most accurately characterises a well-composed plate of food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, compose · To what, where: composed plate

This is exam question 2 of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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	7 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 characterises	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 characterises	csubj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plate	det
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 composed	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
11	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 plate	amod
12	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plate	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a composed plate of food	accurately property	tree rules
3	compose	participle		well property	vn create-26.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Half protein, a quarter sweets, a quarter grains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 protein	amod
2	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweets	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sweets	det
5	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweets	compound
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protein	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grains	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 quarter	det
9	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grains	compound
10	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protein	conj

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

Option 2

Entirely grains, with fruit served only at weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 grains	advmod
2	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fruit	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fruit	case
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grains	conj
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fruit	acl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 weekends	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 weekends	case
9	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 served	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	participle		fruit not said here			weekend		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Half sweets, with the remainder vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 sweets	compound
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 vegetables	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 vegetables	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vegetables	det
6	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vegetables	compound
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sweets	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Half vegetables and fruit, a quarter grains, a quarter protein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 vegetables	amod
2	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fruit	cc
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vegetables	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grains	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grains	det
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grains	compound
8	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vegetables	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 protein	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 protein	det
11	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protein	compound
12	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vegetables	conj

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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