Exam question 4 · The skeleton and muscles

Identify the longest bone of the human body.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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 bone	det
3	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 bone	amod
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	nmod
9	.	.	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 longest bone of the human body					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bone=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

The backbone, or the spine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 backbone	det
2	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spine	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 spine	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spine	det
6	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 backbone	conj

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

Option 2

The shin bone, or the tibia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tibia	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 tibia	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tibia	det
7	tibia	tibia	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The thigh bone, or femur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 femur	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 femur	cc
6	femur	femur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	appos

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

Option 4

The upper arm bone, or humerus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bone	det
2	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bone	amod
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	compound
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 humerus	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 humerus	cc
7	humerus	humerus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	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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