Exam question 2 · How plants make their food

Identify the substance within the leaf that captures the energy of light.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, leaf · What happens: identify, capture · To what, where: substance, energy

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 leaf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 captures	nsubj
8	captures	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leaf	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 energy	det
10	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captures	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 light	case
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 energy	nmod
13	.	.	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 substance				within the leaf	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	capture	present	the leaf	the energy of light					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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

Dissolved oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oxygen	amod
2	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Calcium salts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calcium	calcium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salts	compound
2	salts	salt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Chlorophyll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Stored starch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 starch	amod
2	starch	starch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	participle							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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