Exam question 4 · The heart, blood and breathing

Identify the muscle beneath the lungs that assists inhalation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, muscle · What happens: identify, assist · To what, where: muscle, inhalation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» 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 muscle	det
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 lungs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lungs	det
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 muscle	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 assists	nsubj
8	assists	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 muscle	acl:relcl
9	inhalation	inhalation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assists	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 muscle				beneath the lungs	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme
2	assist	present	the muscle	inhalation					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhalation=Beneficiary

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 calf muscle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muscle	det
2	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muscle	compound
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The diaphragm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The biceps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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