Exam question 1 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

Identify the parts of the flower that produce pollen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flower · What happens: identify, produce · To what, where: parts, pollen

This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» 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 parts	det
3	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parts	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 produce	nsubj
8	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	acl:relcl
9	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 produce	obj
10	.	.	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 parts of the flower					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	produce	present	the flower	pollen					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Result

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 coloured petals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 petals	det
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 petals	amod
3	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The central pistil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pistil	det
2	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pistil	amod
3	pistil	pistil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stamens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The green sepals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sepals	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sepals	amod
3	sepals	sepal	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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