Exam question 4 · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

Ascertain the item that is among the most common causes of serious burns in small children.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, item · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: item

This is exam question 4 of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» of the everyday 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 causes	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 causes	cop
6	among	among	ADP	_	10 causes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 causes	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 common	advmod
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 causes	amod
10	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 item	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 burns	case
12	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 burns	amod
13	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 causes	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burns	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the item					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Topic
2	is	present	the item					among the common causes; of serious burns in small children	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

Paper and cardboard in the home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cardboard	cc
3	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paper	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 home	det
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paper	nmod

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

Option 2

Ice cubes from the freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubes	compound
2	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 freezer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 freezer	det
5	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubes	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hot drinks and kettles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinks	amod
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kettles	cc
4	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drinks	conj

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

Option 4

Cold water from the tap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tap	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tap	det
5	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod

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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