Exam question 3 · "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure
Ascertain which organs of the human body are responsible for the removal of waste from the blood on a daily basis.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, organs · What happens: ascertain, be, remove · To what, where: waste
This is exam question 3 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 organs | det |
| 3 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 responsible | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 body | amod |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 organs | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 responsible | cop |
| 9 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ascertain | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 removal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 removal | det |
| 12 | removal | removal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responsible | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 waste | case |
| 14 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 removal | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 blood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waste | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 basis | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 basis | det |
| 20 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 basis | amod |
| 21 | basis | basis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blood | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | which organs of the human body | for the removal of waste from the blood on a daily basis; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remove | waste from the blood on a daily basis | nom removal «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
The bones and the muscles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 muscles | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 muscles | det |
| 5 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bones | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The lungs and the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lungs | det |
| 2 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heart | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lungs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The liver and the kidneys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 liver | det |
| 2 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kidneys | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kidneys | det |
| 5 | kidneys | kidney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 liver | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The stomach and the skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stomach | det |
| 2 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 skin | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stomach | conj |
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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