Exam question 1 · Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop

Identify the substance contained in both cigarettes and electronic cigarettes which renders them addictive.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cigarettes	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cigarettes	det
7	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 contained	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cigarettes	cc
9	electronic	electronic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cigarettes	amod
10	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cigarettes	conj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 renders	nsubj
12	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 substance	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 renders	obj
14	addictive	addictive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 renders	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	contain	participle		the substance not said here	both cigarettes and electronic cigarettes		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cigarette=Location
3	render	present	the substance	cigarettes = cigarette		addictive property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

Water vapour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vapour	compound
2	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nicotine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nicotine	nicotine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Caffeine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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