Exam question 1 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Identify the part of the plant principally responsible for the absorption of water and minerals.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, absorb · To what, where: part, water

This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Parts of a plant and what each does» 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	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	principally	principally	ADV	_	8 responsible	advmod
8	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 absorption	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 absorption	det
11	absorption	absorption	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 responsible	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 absorption	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 minerals	cc
15	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 absorption	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the part of the plant					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	absorb			water					nom absorption «process 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 fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roots	det
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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