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Exam question 3 · Soil and what lives in it

It is given that one soil drains rapidly whilst another retains water and drains slowly. Determine the respective designations of these soils.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: one soil, another, you · What happens: give, drain, retain, determine, designate · To what, where: It, water, respective designations, soils

This is exam question 3 of lesson 63 «Soil and what lives in it» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that one soil drains rapidly whilst another retains water and drains slowly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 drains	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 soil	nummod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drains	nsubj
7	drains	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	7 drains	advmod
9	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	11 retains	mark
10	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	11 retains	nsubj
11	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drains	advcl
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retains	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drains	cc
14	drains	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 retains	conj
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 drains	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drain	present	one soil					rapidly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
3	retain	present	another	water					tree rules
4	drain	present	another not said here					slowly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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.

Sentence 2: Determine the respective designations of these soils.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designations	det
3	respective	respective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 designations	amod
4	designations	designation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 soils	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 soils	det
7	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 designations	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the respective designations of this soils					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent designation=Topic
2	designate			this soils					nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1

Subsoil and topsoil respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Subsoil	subsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 topsoil	cc
3	topsoil	topsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Subsoil	conj
4	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	1 Subsoil	advmod

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

Option 2

Clay soil and sandy soil respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	compound
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 soil	cc
4	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	conj
6	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	2 soil	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sandy soil and clay soil respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soil	amod
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 soil	cc
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	compound
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	conj
6	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	2 soil	advmod

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

Option 4

Loam and subsoil respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loam	loam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 subsoil	cc
3	subsoil	subsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loam	conj
4	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	1 Loam	advmod

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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