Exam question 2 · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

Identify the principal characteristic of ADHD.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 characteristic	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 characteristic	amod
4	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ADHD	case
6	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characteristic	nmod
7	.	.	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 characteristic of ADHD					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme

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

A difference in how the brain works that can make sitting still hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
3	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 works	mark
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 works	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	nsubj
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 difference	acl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 works	obl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 make	obj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 hard	advmod
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	the brain	a difference		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	can	a difference		hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	sit	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

An illness caught from others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 others	case
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	participle	a illness			others			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source

Option 3

A condition caused by eating too much sugar and too many sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 condition	acl
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 caused	advcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sugar	amod
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sweets	cc
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sweets	amod
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 condition	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		a condition and many sweets not said here					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	eat	gerund		much sugar					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Option 4

A form of deliberate naughtiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 naughtiness	case
4	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 naughtiness	amod
5	naughtiness	naughtiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			deliberate naughtiness					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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