Exam question 2 · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

Identify the principal reason for which medicine is never described to small children as sweets.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, not describe · To what, where: principal reason, medicine

This is exam question 2 of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 described	obl
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 described	aux:pass
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 described	advmod
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 described	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 sweets	case
15	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 described	obl
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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not describe	present · passive		medicine				for the principal reason; to small children; as sweets	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as sweet=Attribute

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

Small children may thereafter seek more of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seek	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seek	aux
4	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	5 seek	advmod
5	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 seek	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	may	Small children	more of it				thereafter property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 2

Medicine is a good deal more expensive than sweets are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 expensive	advmod
7	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 sweets	case
9	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 expensive	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 expensive	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Medicine	a good deal					tree rules
2	is	present						than sweets; expensive property	tree rules

Option 3

Sweets interfere with medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 interfere	nsubj
2	interfere	interfere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 medicine	case
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interfere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interfere	present	Sweets					with medicine	tree rules

Option 4

Children dislike the word «medicine»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dislike	nsubj
2	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dislike	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 medicine	punct
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 word	appos
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 medicine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	present	Children	the word					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=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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