Exam question 2 · The age of science

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the scientific method?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: scientific method

This is exam question 2 of lesson 29 «The age of science» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 method	det
10	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 method	amod
11	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the scientific method				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

The testing of hypotheses by experiment and measurement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 testing	det
2	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hypotheses	case
4	hypotheses	hypothesis	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 testing	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 experiment	case
6	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hypotheses	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 measurement	cc
8	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experiment	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test			hypotheses by experiment and measurement					nom testing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The settling of questions by majority vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 settling	det
2	settling	settling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 questions	case
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 settling	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 vote	case
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vote	compound
7	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 settling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle		questions						nom settling «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

Deference to the authority of ancient texts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deference	deference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 authority	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 authority	det
4	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deference	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 texts	case
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 texts	amod
7	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 authority	nmod

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

Option 4

Reliance upon the opinion of rulers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reliance	reliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 opinion	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 opinion	det
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reliance	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rulers	case
6	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 opinion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	opine			rulers					nom opinion «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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