Exam question 1 · Energy: what makes things happen

Identify the original source of the energy contained within the greater part of human food.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, contain · To what, where: original source, energy

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Energy: what makes things happen» of the physics 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 source	det
3	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 source	amod
4	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 energy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 energy	det
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 source	nmod
8	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 energy	acl
9	within	within	ADP	_	12 part	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 part	det
11	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 part	amod
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contained	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 food	case
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 part	nmod
16	.	.	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 original source of the energy					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent source=Theme
2	contain	participle		the energy not said here				within the greater part of human food	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 motion of the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	motion		the oceans						nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Heat derived from the cooker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 derived	nsubj
2	derived	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 cooker	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cooker	det
5	cooker	cooker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 derived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	derive	past	Heat			the cooker			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from cooker=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sunlight captured by plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Sunlight	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 plants	case
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 captured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	participle		Sunlight not said here				by plants	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Minerals dissolved in the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Minerals	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle		Minerals not said here		the soil			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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