Exam question 2 · Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes

Identify the principal reason for which steel bars are placed within reinforced concrete.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, place, reinforce · To what, where: principal reason, steel bars

This is exam question 2 of lesson 86 «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 placed	obl
7	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bars	compound
8	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 placed	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	aux:pass
10	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 concrete	case
12	reinforced	reinforce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 concrete	amod
13	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	place	present · passive		steel bars	for the principal reason; within reinforced concrete	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
3	reinforce	participle				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

So that the concrete may dry more quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 dry	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 dry	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 concrete	det
4	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dry	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dry	aux
6	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	may	the concrete					quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

So that the concrete may be rendered lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 rendered	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 rendered	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 concrete	det
4	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rendered	nsubj:pass
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 rendered	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rendered	aux:pass
7	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 rendered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	may · passive		the concrete				light property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

So that the concrete may conduct electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 conduct	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 conduct	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 concrete	det
4	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conduct	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 conduct	aux
6	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conduct	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	may	the concrete	electricity					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So that the concrete may resist stretching as well as squashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 resist	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 resist	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 concrete	det
4	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resist	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 resist	aux
6	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 resist	obj
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 squashing	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
11	squashing	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stretching	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	resist	may	the concrete	tree rules
2	stretch	gerund		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squash	gerund		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

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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