Exam question 1 · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

Identify the principal function of white blood cells within the human body.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal function

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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	4 function	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 function	amod
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 cells	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 function	nmod
9	within	within	ADP	_	12 body	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 body	det
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 body	amod
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
13	.	.	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 function of white blood cells				within the human body	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=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

The formation of bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 formation	det
2	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bone	case
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 formation	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The detection and destruction of pathogens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 detection	det
2	detection	detection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 destruction	cc
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 detection	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 pathogens	case
6	pathogens	pathogen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 detection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	detect			pathogens					nom detection «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The transport of oxygen to the tissues of the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transport	det
2	transport	transport	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxygen	case
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transport	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tissues	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tissues	det
7	tissues	tissue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 transport	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tissues	nmod

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

Option 4

The digestion of food within the stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 digestion	det
2	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 food	case
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digestion	nmod
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 stomach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stomach	det
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digestion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest			food				within the stomach	nom digestion «process transitive»: of=patient within=obl

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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