Exam question 2 · Solids, liquids and gases

Identify, from among the following, the state of matter most readily compressed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, follow, compress · To what, where: state, matter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Solids, liquids and gases» of the world 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 following	punct
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 following	mark
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 following	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 following	det
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 state	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 state	det
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 following	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 matter	case
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 state	nmod
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 readily	advmod
13	readily	readily	ADV	_	14 compressed	advmod
14	compressed	compress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 matter	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	gerund		the state of matter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	compress	participle		matter not said here	readily property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

A solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 solid	det
2	solid	solid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

All states are compressed equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 states	det
2	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compressed	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compressed	aux:pass
4	compressed	compress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	equally	equally	ADV	_	4 compressed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compress	present · passive		all states				equally property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gas	det
2	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 liquid	det
2	liquid	liquid	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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