Exam question 1 · How plants make their food
State the substances required by plants for the manufacture of food.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: require, manufacture · To what, where: State substances, food
This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 substances | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 substances | det |
| 3 | substances | substance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 substances | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 plants | case |
| 6 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 required | obl:agent |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 manufacture | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 manufacture | det |
| 9 | manufacture | manufacture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 required | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 manufacture | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 substances | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | participle | the State substances not said here | for the manufacture of food | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | manufacture | food | nom manufacture «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
Water, soil and sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soil | punct |
| 3 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sugar | cc |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Water | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Light, oxygen and nitrogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 oxygen | punct |
| 3 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nitrogen | cc |
| 5 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Light, water and carbon dioxide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dioxide | cc |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | compound |
| 6 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Light | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Soil, oxygen and darkness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 oxygen | punct |
| 3 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soil | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 darkness | cc |
| 5 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soil | 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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