Exam question 4 · Balance: the centre of gravity

Ascertain the organ chiefly responsible for informing the brain of the inclination of the body.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, body · What happens: ascertain, inform, incline · To what, where: organ, brain

This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 organ	det
3	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	5 responsible	advmod
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 organ	amod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 informing	mark
7	informing	inform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 responsible	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 informing	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 inclination	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 inclination	det
12	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brain	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inclination	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the organ	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Topic
2	inform speech: other	gerund	you not said here	the brain of the inclination of the body	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient
3	incline		the body		nom inclination «cognition 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 skin of the feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The stomach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stomach	det
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lungs	det
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The inner ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ear	det
2	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ear	amod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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