Exam question 4 · Safe in the kitchen

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of cold upon bacteria.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, effect

This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «Safe in the kitchen» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 effect	det
13	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cold	case
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 effect	nmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 bacteria	case
17	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cold	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the effect of cold		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus effect=Experiencer

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

Cold destroys all bacteria within a few hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 destroys	nsubj
2	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bacteria	det
4	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 destroys	obj
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 hours	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hours	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 destroys	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	present	Cold	all bacteria			hour		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Patient

Option 2

Cold has no effect of any kind upon bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effect	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 bacteria	case
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cold	no effect of any kind upon bacteria					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	effect			any kind upon bacteria					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cold retards the growth of bacteria but does not kill them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 retards	amod
2	retards	retard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kill	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 growth	det
4	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retards	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bacteria	case
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growth	nmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	2 retards	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kill	advmod
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	present · do-support	Cold retards	bacteria = bacterium					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	grow		bacteria						nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Cold accelerates the growth of bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accelerates	nsubj
2	accelerates	accelerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 growth	det
4	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accelerates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bacteria	case
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accelerate	present	Cold	the growth of bacteria					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent growth=Patient
2	grow		bacteria						nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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