Exam question 3 · Food and farming around the world

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the use of fresh water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, use · To what, where: response, use, fresh water

This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 use	det
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the use of fresh water		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus use=Experiencer
4	use			fresh water		nom use «act 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Agriculture accounts for approximately seventy per cent of human withdrawals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accounts	compound
2	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 cent	case
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	5 seventy	advmod
5	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cent	nummod
6	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cent	compound
7	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accounts	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 withdrawals	case
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 withdrawals	amod
10	withdrawals	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cent	nmod

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

Option 2

Domestic washing accounts for the greater part of withdrawals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 accounts	amod
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	compound
3	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 part	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 part	amod
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 withdrawals	case
9	withdrawals	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 part	nmod

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

Option 3

Fresh water is not employed in agriculture to any degree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 employed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 employed	advmod
5	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 agriculture	case
7	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 degree	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 degree	det
10	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not employ	present · passive		Fresh water		agriculture		to any degree	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Agriculture accounts for approximately one per cent of human withdrawals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accounts	compound
2	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 cent	case
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cent	nummod
6	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cent	compound
7	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accounts	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 withdrawals	case
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 withdrawals	amod
10	withdrawals	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cent	nmod

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

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