Exam question 4 · Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail ma…

State the correct treatment for a minor burn from a campfire.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗

This is exam question 4 of lesson 325 «Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treatment	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 treatment	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 treatment	amod
4	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 burn	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 burn	det
7	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 burn	amod
8	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treatment	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 campfire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 campfire	det
11	campfire	campfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burn	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 treatment	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Leaving it uncovered in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 uncovered	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leaving	obj
3	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uncovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	uncover	participle	Leaving			the sun			tree rules

Option 2

Butter spread over the burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 burn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 burn	det
5	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Butter			the burn			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over burn=Location

Option 3

Ice applied directly to the skin, held there until the pain stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 applied	nsubj
2	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 applied	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 applied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 held	punct
8	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 skin	acl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 held	advmod
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 stops	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pain	det
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 applied	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	apply	past	Ice			to the skin; directly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hold	participle		the skin not said here	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	the pain				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cool running water for twenty minutes and telling a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 telling	cc
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 water	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 up	det
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 up	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	run	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	a grown up	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
3	grow	participle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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