Exam question 1 · Gemstones and precious metals
Identify the principal reason for which gold has been esteemed across several millennia.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, esteem · To what, where: principal reason, gold, several millennia
This is exam question 1 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 | 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 esteemed | obl |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 esteemed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 esteemed | aux:pass |
| 10 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 millennia | case |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 millennia | amod |
| 13 | millennia | millennia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 esteemed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 | esteem | present · perfect · passive | gold | several millennia | for the principal reason | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for which=Attribute |
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
It is resistant to corrosion and sufficiently malleable to be worked
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 resistant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 resistant | cop |
| 3 | resistant | resistant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 corrosion | case |
| 5 | corrosion | corrosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 resistant | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 malleable | cc |
| 7 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 8 malleable | advmod |
| 8 | malleable | malleable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 resistant | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 worked | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worked | aux:pass |
| 11 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 malleable | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | to corrosion; resistant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | sufficiently property | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive · passive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V» |
Option 2
It is the hardest substance hitherto discovered by mineralogists
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 | 5 substance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 substance | det |
| 4 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 substance | amod |
| 5 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 7 discovered | advmod |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 substance | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mineralogists | case |
| 9 | mineralogists | mineralogist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 discovered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the hardest substance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | participle | the hardest substance not said here | by mineralogists; hitherto property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust
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 | 6 metal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 metal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 metal | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 abundant | advmod |
| 5 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 metal | amod |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 crust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crust | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 11 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metal | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the abundant metal | the Earth's crust | tree rules |
Option 4
It emits light of its own accord
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 emits | nsubj |
| 2 | emits | emit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 emits | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 accord | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 accord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 accord | amod |
| 7 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emit | present | It | light of light's own accord | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | light | light's own accord | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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