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Exam question 4 · When the story falls apart

It is given that a pupil's illness appears solely when schoolwork is due and disappears when recreation is available. Determine the most probable inference.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: illness, schoolwork, recreation, you · What happens: give, appear, be, disappear, determine · To what, where: It, probable inference

This is exam question 4 of lesson 431 «When the story falls apart» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a pupil's illness appears solely when schoolwork is due and disappears when recreation is available.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 appears	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 illness	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pupil	case
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appears	nsubj
9	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
10	solely	solely	ADV	_	9 appears	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 due	advmod
12	schoolwork	schoolwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 due	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 due	cop
14	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	3 given	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 disappears	cc
16	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 due	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 available	advmod
18	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 available	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 available	cop
20	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 disappears	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	appear	present	a pupil's illness					solely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	schoolwork					due property	tree rules
4	disappear	present	schoolwork not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	recreation					available property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Determine the most probable inference.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inference	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 probable	advmod
4	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 inference	amod
5	inference	inference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the probable inference					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inference=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The illness is caused by the school building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 building	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 building	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 building	compound
8	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive		the illness				by the school building	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The pupil recovers rapidly from any illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recovers	nsubj
3	recovers	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	3 recovers	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 illness	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 illness	det
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recovers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	present	the pupil			any illness		rapidly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from illness=Source

Option 3

The illness is genuine and serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 genuine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 genuine	cop
4	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 serious	cc
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 genuine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the illness					genuine property	tree rules
2	be		the illness not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The illness is feigned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feigned	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feigned	aux:pass
4	feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	present · passive		the illness					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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