Exam question 1 · Materials and their properties

Identify, from among the following, the material that conducts heat most effectively.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, material · What happens: identify, follow, conduct · To what, where: material, heat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «Materials and their properties» 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	_	9 material	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	9 material	case
4	among	among	ADP	_	9 material	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 material	det
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 material	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 material	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 material	det
9	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 conducts	nsubj
11	conducts	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 material	acl:relcl
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conducts	obj
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 effectively	advmod
14	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	11 conducts	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		the material		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	conduct	present	the material	heat		effectively property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

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

Dry wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Natural cork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cork	amod
2	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Woollen cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cloth	amod
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metal	metal	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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