Exam question 3 · Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises carbon monoxide?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: carbon monoxide

This is exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Electricity at home: switches, plugs, fuses and alarms» of the technology 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monoxide	compound
10	monoxide	monoxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		carbon monoxide				of the following statements; accurately property	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.

The options

Option 1

A harmless gas with a strong smell of rotten eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gas	det
2	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gas	amod
3	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 smell	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smell	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smell	amod
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gas	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eggs	amod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		rotten eggs						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

A visible grey smoke from burning food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
2	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smoke	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smoke	amod
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 burning	mark
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 smoke	acl
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund	a visible grey smoke not said here	food					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A poisonous gas without colour, odour or taste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gas	det
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gas	amod
3	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 colour	case
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gas	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 odour	punct
7	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gas	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 taste	cc
9	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 odour	conj

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

Option 4

A gas produced only by electric heaters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gas	det
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gas	acl
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 produced	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 heaters	case
6	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heaters	amod
7	heaters	heater	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 produced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	participle		a gas not said here				by electric heaters	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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