Exam question 1 · Snow, ice and strong sun

Identify the signs of hypothermia.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, sign · To what, where: signs, hypothermia

This is exam question 1 of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 signs	det
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hypothermia	case
5	hypothermia	hypothermia	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signs	nmod
6	.	.	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 signs of hypothermia					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	sign			hypothermia					nom sign «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice

Hunger and a dry mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mouth	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mouth	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mouth	amod
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunger	conj

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

Option 2

A hot face accompanied by much sweating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 face	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 face	amod
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 face	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sweating	case
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweating	amod
7	sweating	sweating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accompanied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle		a hot face not said here				by much sweating	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sweating=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hard shivering with clumsiness and sleepiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shivering	amod
2	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 clumsiness	case
4	clumsiness	clumsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shivering	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleepiness	cc
6	sleepiness	sleepiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shivering	conj

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

Option 4

A sudden wish to run and play outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wish	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	amod
3	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 play	cc
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	conj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	infinitive						outside property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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