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Exam question 4 · Food on the floor and kitchen rules

It is given that two eggs differ solely in the colour of their shells, one being brown and the other white. Determine the principal cause of this difference.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two eggs, one, you · What happens: give, differ, be, determine, cause · To what, where: It, colour, principal cause, difference

This is exam question 4 of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: It is given that two eggs differ solely in the colour of their shells, one being brown and the other white.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 differ	mark
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eggs	nummod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 differ	nsubj
7	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	solely	solely	ADV	_	7 differ	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 colour	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 colour	det
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 differ	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 shells	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shells	nmod:poss
14	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 colour	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brown	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 brown	nsubj
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 brown	cop
18	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 colour	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 white	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 white	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 white	amod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brown	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	differ	present	two eggs			the colour of eggs's shells		solely property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	one					brown property	tree rules
4	be		one not said here						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.

Sentence 2: Determine the principal cause of this difference.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 difference	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 difference	det
7	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of this difference					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	cause			this difference					nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The breed of the hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breed	det
2	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hen	det
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breed	nmod

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

Option 2

The age of the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 age	det
2	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 egg	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 age	nmod

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

Option 3

The nutritional value of the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 value	det
2	nutritional	nutritional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 value	amod
3	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 value	nmod

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

Option 4

The colour of the hen's feed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 feed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hen	det
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hen	case
7	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod

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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