Exam question 4 · Kitchen and garden dangers

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the mixing of household cleaning products.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, mix · To what, where: response, mixing, cleaning products

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mixing	det
11	mixing	mixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 products	case
13	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cleaning	compound
14	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 products	compound
15	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mixing	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the mixing of cleaning products		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mixing=Experiencer
4	mix			cleaning products		nom mixing «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Mixing is required before use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mixing	mixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 use	case
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		Mixing			before use		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

Option 2

Mixing renders the products harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mixing	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 renders	amod
2	renders	render	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 products	det
4	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 renders	conj
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 renders	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	gerund							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

All combinations improve cleaning power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 combinations	det
2	combinations	combination	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 improve	nsubj
3	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 improve	xcomp
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	all combinations						tree rules
2	clean	gerund	all combinations not said here	power					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Certain combinations liberate a poisonous gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 combinations	amod
2	combinations	combination	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 liberate	nsubj
3	liberate	liberate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gas	det
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gas	amod
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liberate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	liberate	present	Certain combinations	a poisonous gas					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme

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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