Exam question 1 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

Identify the principal cause of the odour associated with perspiring feet.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, associate, perspire, cause · To what, where: principal cause, odour

This is exam question 1 of lesson 356 «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 odour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 odour	det
7	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
8	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 odour	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	perspiring	perspire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 feet	amod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 associated	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of the odour		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	associate	participle		the odour not said here	with perspiring feet	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with foot=Co-Patient
3	perspire	gerund				vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cause			the odour		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

The perspiration as it is first secreted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 perspiration	det
2	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secreted	nsubj:pass
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perspiration	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 secreted	aux:pass
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 secreted	advmod
7	secreted	secrete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	secrete	present · passive		the perspiration as it				first property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The action of bacteria which consume the perspiration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bacteria	case
4	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 action	nmod
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consume	nsubj
6	consume	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bacteria	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 perspiration	det
8	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consume	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present	bacteria	the perspiration					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perspiration=Asset
2	act		bacteria						nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The toenails as they age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toenails	det
2	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 age	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 age	nsubj
5	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 toenails	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	age	present	toenails = toenail	the toenails not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toenail=Patient

Option 4

The decomposition of the stockings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 decomposition	det
2	decomposition	decomposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stockings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stockings	det
5	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 decomposition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decompose			the stockings					nom decomposition «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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