Exam question 2 · Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises pasteurisation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: pasteurisation

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» 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	pasteurisation	pasteurisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	?	?	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		pasteurisation				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 · ← Mova's choice

The freezing of milk for prolonged storage in cold warehouses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 freezing	det
2	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 milk	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezing	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 storage	case
6	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 storage	amod
7	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezing	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 warehouses	case
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warehouses	amod
10	warehouses	warehouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 storage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prolong	participle							vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	freeze		milk					for prolonged storage in cold warehouses	nom freezing «process intransitive»: of=agent for=obl

Option 2

The addition of water to milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 addition	det
2	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addition	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 milk	mark
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addition	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The brief heating of milk in order to destroy harmful germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heating	det
2	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heating	amod
3	heating	heating	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heating	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heating	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 destroy	mark
9	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heating	acl
10	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 germs	amod
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 destroy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	to-infinitive		harmful germs					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient
2	heat		milk						nom heating «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The removal of all fat from milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fat	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fat	det
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removal	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 milk	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			all fat from milk					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

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