Exam question 4 · Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★

Identify the item which a spinning magnet in a sorting plant expels from the conveyor belt.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, spinning magnet · What happens: identify, spin, expel · To what, where: item, conveyor belt

This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 expels	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magnet	det
6	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 magnet	compound
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 expels	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 plant	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plant	det
10	sorting	sorting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plant	compound
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magnet	nmod
12	expels	expel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 item	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 belt	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 belt	det
15	conveyor	conveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belt	compound
16	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 expels	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	expel	present	a spinning magnet in a sorting plant	the item	the conveyor belt	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from belt=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 · ✓ the right answer

The aluminium can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 aluminium	det
2	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2

The plastic bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bottle	amod
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The steel can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steel	det
2	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4

The paper carton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 carton	det
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carton	compound
3	carton	carton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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