Exam question 2 · Power stations and the grid

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the white plume emitted from a cooling tower.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, emit · To what, where: response, white plume, cooling tower

This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Power stations and the grid» 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	12 plume	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plume	amod
12	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	emitted	emit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 plume	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 tower	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tower	det
16	cooling	cooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tower	compound
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 emitted	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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 white plume			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus plume=Experiencer
4	emit	participle		the white plume not said here	a cooling tower		vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source

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

It consists of smoke produced by combustion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl
5	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smoke	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 combustion	case
7	combustion	combustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It					of smoke	tree rules
2	produce	participle		smoke not said here				by combustion	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It consists of radioactive gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gas	case
4	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gas	amod
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It					of radioactive gas	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It consists of water vapour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 vapour	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vapour	compound
5	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It					of water vapour	tree rules

Option 4

It consists of dust from the interior of the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consists	nsubj
2	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 interior	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 interior	det
7	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consists	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tower	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tower	det
10	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interior	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	present	It			the interior of the tower		of dust	tree rules

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