Exam question 1 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

Identify the principal function of proteins in the diet.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» 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 function	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 function	amod
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 proteins	case
6	proteins	protein	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 function	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 diet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 diet	det
9	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proteins	nmod
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 principal function of proteins in the diet					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=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 provision of fibre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fibre	case
4	fibre	fibre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provision	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide		fibre						nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The building and repair of the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 building	det
2	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 repair	cc
4	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 building	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 building	nmod

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

Option 3

The retention of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 retention	det
2	retention	retention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retention	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain			water					nom retention «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The prevention of scurvy among sailors at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prevention	det
2	prevention	prevention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 scurvy	case
4	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevention	nmod
5	among	among	ADP	_	6 sailors	case
6	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevention	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailors	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent			scurvy				among sailors at sea	nom prevention «act transitive»: of=patient among=obl

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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