Exam question 3 · The first farms and towns

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the composition of bronze.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 composition	det
11	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 bronze	case
13	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 composition	nmod
14	.	.	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 composition of bronze		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus composition=Experiencer

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

An alloy of copper and tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alloy	det
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 copper	case
4	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tin	cc
6	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	conj

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

Option 2

An alloy of gold and silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alloy	det
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 silver	cc
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	conj

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

Option 3

An alloy of iron and carbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alloy	det
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 iron	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alloy	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carbon	cc
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 iron	conj

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

Option 4

A compound of clay and stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 compound	det
2	compound	compound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 clay	case
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compound	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stone	cc
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compound			clay					nom compound «cognition transitive»: of=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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