Exam question 3 · Materials and their properties

Identify the determining condition by which an object floats upon water.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: identify, determine, float · To what, where: determining condition, water

This is exam question 3 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
3	determining	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 floats	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 object	det
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floats	nsubj
9	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	parataxis
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floats	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the determining condition			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	determine	gerund					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	float	present	a object		water	by the determining condition	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by which=Source upon water=Trajectory

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

Its being less dense than water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dense	nmod:poss
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dense	cop
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dense	advmod
4	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dense	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						than water; dense, less property	tree rules

Option 2

Its being of small dimensions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dimensions	nmod:poss
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dimensions	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dimensions	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dimensions	amod
5	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						of Its small dimensions	tree rules

Option 3

Its being composed of wood alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 composed	nmod:poss
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 composed	aux:pass
3	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 composed	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 composed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compose	gerund · passive						of wood; alone property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»

Option 4

Its being light in weight alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 light	nmod:poss
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 light	cop
3	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 weight	case
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 light	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				weight		alone, light property	tree rules

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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