Exam question 3 · What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning an adult tooth fractured in a fight.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, fracture · To what, where: response, adult tooth, fight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 374 «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tooth	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tooth	compound
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tooth	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fight	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fight	det
16	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fractured	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a adult tooth			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer
4	fracture	participle		a adult tooth not said here	a fight		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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 does not regenerate and requires repair by a dentist

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	4 regenerate	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 regenerate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 regenerate	advmod
4	regenerate	regenerate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 requires	cc
6	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 regenerate	conj
7	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requires	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 dentist	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dentist	det
10	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not regenerate	present · do-support	It						tree rules
2	require	present		repair				by a dentist	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme repair=Precondition

Option 2

It requires no treatment of any kind, the chip being of a cosmetic nature only

The tree, 15 words

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 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 treatment	det
4	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treatment	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nature	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chip	det
10	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nature	nsubj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 nature	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 nature	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nature	det
14	cosmetic	cosmetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nature	amod
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	obl
16	only	only	ADV	_	15 nature	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require	present	It	no treatment of any kind		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Precondition
2	is	gerund	the chip		of a cosmetic nature	tree rules
3	treat			any kind		nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It regenerates within several weeks

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 regenerates	nsubj
2	regenerates	regenerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	within	within	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weeks	amod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 regenerates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regenerate	present	It				week		tree rules

Option 4

It is replaced by a milk tooth

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	3 replaced	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 replaced	aux:pass
3	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 tooth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tooth	compound
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replaced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	present · passive	a milk tooth	It					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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