Exam question 4 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

Ascertain which of the following conditions affords no protection against sunburn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, follow, afford · To what, where: protection

This is exam question 4 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 affords	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 conditions	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 conditions	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 conditions	amod
6	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 affords	obl
7	affords	afford	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 protection	det
9	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affords	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	11 sunburn	case
11	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 protection	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	afford	present	you not said here	no protection	of the following conditions; against sunburn	tree rules

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

A hat and shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hat	det
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shade	cc
4	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An overcast sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The application of sun cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 application	det
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cream	case
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cream	compound
5	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply		sun cream						nom application «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Garments covering the shoulders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Garments	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoulders	det
4	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund	Garments not said here	the shoulders					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Destination

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