Exam question 2 · Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing…

Identify the principal sign that a cut has become infected.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 318 «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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 sign	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sign	amod
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 become	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cut	det
7	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 become	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
10	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 become	xcomp
11	.	.	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 sign					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	become	present · perfect	a cut					infected property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It turns red, hot and swollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swollen	cc
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It					red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It forms a dry scab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forms	nsubj
2	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scab	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scab	amod
5	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	It	a dry scab					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scab=Theme

Option 3

It stops bleeding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bleed	gerund							vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

It becomes slightly itchy while healing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	4 itchy	advmod
4	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 healing	mark
6	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 itchy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					itchy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	heal	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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