Exam question 2 · Saving water and energy at home

Identify the bulb which gives equal light with far less electricity.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 89 «Saving water and energy at home» 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 bulb	det
3	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bulb	acl:relcl
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 electricity	case
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 less	advmod
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 electricity	amod
11	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obl
12	.	.	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 bulb					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bulb=Theme
2	give	present	the bulb	equal light				with less electricity	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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

An old filament bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bulb	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bulb	amod
3	filament	filament	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bulb	compound
4	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A coloured glass bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bulb	det
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bulb	amod
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bulb	compound
4	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An LED bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bulb	det
2	LED	led	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulb	compound
3	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A bulb of greater power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bulb	det
2	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 power	case
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 power	amod
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bulb	nmod

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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