Exam question 1 · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

Identify the three requisites for the sustenance of combustion.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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 requisites	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 requisites	nummod
4	requisites	requisite	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sustenance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sustenance	det
7	sustenance	sustenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 combustion	case
9	combustion	combustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sustenance	nmod
10	.	.	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 three requisites				for the sustenance of combustion	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent requisite=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

Smoke, ash and sparks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ash	punct
3	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smoke	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sparks	cc
5	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smoke	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fuel, oxygen and heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 oxygen	punct
3	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fuel	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 heat	cc
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fuel	conj

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

Option 3

Water, wind and light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wind	punct
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 light	cc
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj

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

Option 4

Electricity, metal and air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 metal	punct
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Electricity	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 air	cc
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Electricity	conj

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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