Exam question 2 · Metals, mining and what they cost

Identify the composition of the alloy designated bronze.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, alloy · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: composition, bronze

This is exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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	3 composition	det
3	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 alloy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 alloy	det
6	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 composition	nmod
7	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 alloy	acl
8	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 designated	obj
9	.	.	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 composition of the alloy					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent composition=Theme
2	designate	participle	the alloy not said here	bronze					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bronze=Theme

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

Iron combined with carbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Iron	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 carbon	case
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		Iron not said here				with carbon	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with carbon=Co-Patient

Option 2

Aluminium combined with lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Aluminium	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 lead	case
4	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		Aluminium not said here				with lead	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with lead=Co-Patient

Option 3

Silver combined with gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Silver	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		Silver not said here				with gold	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with gold=Co-Patient

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

Copper combined with tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Copper	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 tin	case
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle		Copper not said here				with tin	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tin=Co-Patient

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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