Exam question 3 · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the cooking of food with alcohol.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts, food · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, cook · To what, where: response, cooking

This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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

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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cooking	det
13	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cooking	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 alcohol	case
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 food	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the cooking of food with alcohol		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cooking=Experiencer
5	cook		food with alcohol			nom cooking «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 alcohol is entirely eliminated instantaneously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 alcohol	det
2	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eliminated	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eliminated	aux:pass
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 eliminated	advmod
5	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	instantaneously	instantaneously	ADV	_	5 eliminated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eliminate	present · passive		the alcohol				entirely, instantaneously property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A proportion of the alcohol invariably remains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 proportion	det
2	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remains	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 alcohol	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 alcohol	det
5	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proportion	nmod
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	7 remains	advmod
7	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	a proportion of the alcohol					invariably property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The alcohol content increases with heating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 content	det
2	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 content	compound
3	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 increases	nsubj
4	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 heating	case
6	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 increases	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	the alcohol content					with heating	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The alcohol is converted wholly into water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 alcohol	det
2	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 converted	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 converted	aux:pass
4	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	4 converted	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 converted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert	present · passive		the alcohol				into water result; wholly property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into water=Result

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