Exam question 4 · Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight

State the cause of hay fever.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, cause · To what, where: cause, hay fever

This is exam question 4 of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fever	case
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fever	compound
6	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the cause of hay fever					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
2	cause			hay fever					nom cause «event 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

Germs passed on by a sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Germs	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sneeze	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sneeze	det
6	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle		Germs not said here				by a sneeze	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A fever caused by hot weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		a fever not said here				by hot weather	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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

Pollen, which brings sneezing and itchy eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brings	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pollen	acl:relcl
5	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eyes	cc
7	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sneezing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Pollen	sneezing and itchy eyes					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sneezing=Theme

Option 4

Hay eaten by the sufferer, which irritates the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hay	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sufferer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sufferer	det
5	sufferer	sufferer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eaten	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 irritates	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 irritates	nsubj
8	irritates	irritate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sufferer	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nose	det
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 irritates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		Hay not said here				by the sufferer	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	irritate	present	the sufferer	the nose					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nose=Experiencer

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