Exam question 1 · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes
Identify the signs of heatstroke requiring immediate assistance.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, heatstroke · What happens: identify, require, sign · To what, where: signs, immediate assistance, heatstroke
This is exam question 1 of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 heatstroke | case |
| 5 | heatstroke | heatstroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signs | nmod |
| 6 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 heatstroke | acl |
| 7 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 assistance | amod |
| 8 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 requiring | obj |
| 9 | . | . | 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 heatstroke | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 2 | require | gerund | heatstroke not said here | immediate assistance | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme assistance=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | sign | heatstroke | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Being hot and confused, or ceasing to sweat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hot | cop |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 confused | cc |
| 4 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hot | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ceasing | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 ceasing | cc |
| 7 | ceasing | cease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hot | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sweat | mark |
| 9 | sweat | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ceasing | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | hot property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | cease | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | sweat | to-infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Being hungry before lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hungry | cop |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 lunch | case |
| 4 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hungry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | before lunch | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 3
Being slightly thirsty after play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thirsty | cop |
| 2 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 thirsty | advmod |
| 3 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 play | case |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thirsty | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | after play | slightly, thirsty property | tree rules |
Option 4
Feeling cool and alert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 alert | cc |
| 4 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cool | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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