Exam question 1 · Kitchen and garden dangers

Identify the principal reason for which the feed tube of a food processor is made narrow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, make · To what, where: principal reason, feed tube

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 made	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tube	det
8	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tube	compound
9	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 processor	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 processor	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 processor	compound
13	processor	processor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tube	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
16	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	xcomp
17	.	.	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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	make	present · passive		the feed tube of a food processor				for the principal reason; narrow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for which=Asset

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

To increase the speed of processing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 increase	mark
2	increase	increase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speed	det
4	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increase	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 processing	case
6	processing	processing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speed	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	to-infinitive		the speed of processing					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer speed=Patient

Option 2

To facilitate the cleaning of the device

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 facilitate	mark
2	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cleaning	det
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 facilitate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 device	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 device	det
7	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	facilitate	to-infinitive		the cleaning of the device					tree rules
2	clean		the device						nom cleaning «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

To reduce the wastage of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reduce	mark
2	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wastage	det
4	wastage	wastage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduce	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wastage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	to-infinitive		the wastage of food					vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wastage=Patient
2	waste		food						nom wastage «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To prevent the insertion of a hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 insertion	det
4	insertion	insertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insertion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		the insertion of a hand					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer insertion=Theme
2	insert			a hand					nom insertion «communication transitive»: of=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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