Exam question 2 · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Identify the recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water after contact with animals.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend · To what, where: recommended duration

This is exam question 2 of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» 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	4 duration	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 duration	amod
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 washing	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washing	compound
7	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duration	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 soap	case
9	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washing	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washing	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 contact	case
13	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 animals	case
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 contact	nmod
16	.	.	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 recommended duration of hand washing with soap and water			after contact with animals		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme
2	recommend	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Approximately twenty seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 twenty	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seconds	nummod
3	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately five minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately two seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seconds	nummod
3	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Hand washing is unnecessary after contact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washing	compound
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unnecessary	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unnecessary	cop
4	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 contact	case
6	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unnecessary	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hand washing				after contact	unnecessary property	tree rules

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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