Exam question 2 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning rabies.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, rabies

This is exam question 2 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	rabies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rabies=Experiencer

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

Once symptoms appear it is almost invariably fatal, but prompt vaccination after a bite prevents it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 appear	mark
2	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appear	nsubj
3	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 prevents	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fatal	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fatal	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 invariably	advmod
7	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	8 fatal	advmod
8	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 appear	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prevents	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 prevents	cc
11	prompt	prompt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vaccination	amod
12	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prevents	nsubj
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 bite	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bite	det
15	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vaccination	nmod
16	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prevents	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	present	symptoms			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it		fatal, invariably property	tree rules
3	prevent	present	prompt vaccination after a bite	bite		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme

Option 2

It is a mild illness that resolves without treatment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 illness	det
4	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illness	amod
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 resolves	nsubj
7	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	acl:relcl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 treatment	case
9	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mild illness					tree rules
2	resolve	present	a mild illness					without treatment	tree rules

Option 3

Vaccination is effective only after the symptoms of the disease have become apparent in the patient

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effective	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 effective	cop
3	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	12 become	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 become	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 symptoms	det
7	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 disease	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 disease	det
10	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 symptoms	nmod
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 effective	advcl
13	apparent	apparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 become	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 patient	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 patient	det
16	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apparent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Vaccination					effective property	tree rules
2	become	present · perfect	the symptoms of the disease					apparent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is transmitted solely through the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 transmitted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 transmitted	aux:pass
3	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 transmitted	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	present · passive		It		the air		solely property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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