Exam question 2 · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★
Identify the person most appropriately consulted regarding whether a cough medicine may be taken alongside existing tablets.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, consult, regard, take, exist · To what, where: person, cough medicine
This is exam question 2 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 appropriately | advmod |
| 5 | appropriately | appropriately | ADV | _ | 6 consulted | advmod |
| 6 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 taken | mark |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 medicine | det |
| 10 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 medicine | compound |
| 11 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | acl |
| 15 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 17 tablets | case |
| 16 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 tablets | amod |
| 17 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 person | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consult | participle | the person not said here | appropriately property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | take | may · passive | the person not said here | a cough medicine | alongside existing tablets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
A pharmacist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pharmacist | det |
| 2 | pharmacist | pharmacist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A school friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | compound |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bus driver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driver | compound |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A newsagent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 newsagent | det |
| 2 | newsagent | newsagent | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/e2/