Exam question 1 · The optician and glasses

Identify the condition wherein light is brought to focus anterior to the retina, rendering distant objects indistinct.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, bring, focus, render · To what, where: condition, light, anterior, distant objects

This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	7 brought	advmod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 condition	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 focus	mark
9	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 brought	xcomp
10	anterior	anterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 focus	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 retina	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 retina	det
13	retina	retina	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 focus	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rendering	punct
15	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 focus	advcl
16	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 objects	amod
17	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rendering	obj
18	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rendering	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the condition		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	bring	present · passive		light	wherein property	tree rules
3	focus	to-infinitive		anterior	to the retina	tree rules
4	render	gerund		distant objects	indistinct property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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 · ← Mova's choice

Cataract

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cataract	cataract	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Myopia, or short sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myopia	myopia	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sight	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 sight	cc
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sight	amod
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Myopia	appos

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

Option 3

Amblyopia, or lazy eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amblyopia	amblyopia	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 eye	cc
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Amblyopia	appos

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

Option 4

Colour blindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blindness	compound
2	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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