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title: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises steel? — Metals and what they're good for · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises steel? Exam question 2 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 2 · Metals and what they're good for

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises steel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** steel

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» of the chemistry 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises steel?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | steel |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An alloy of iron with a small proportion of carbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:e2:o1:1
# text = An alloy of iron with a small proportion of carbon
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A compound of aluminium and oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:e2:o2:1
# text = A compound of aluminium and oxygen
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compound	compound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compound** |  |  | aluminium |  |  |  |  | nom compound «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A pure element found free in nature in large lumps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:e2:o3:1
# text = A pure element found free in nature in large lumps
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a pure element |  |  | nature |  | in large lumps; free *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An alloy of copper with tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:31-metals-what-theyre-good-for:e2:o4:1
# text = An alloy of copper with tin
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alloy	alloy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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