Exam question 4 · Sun safety

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning sunburn in childhood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, sunburn, childhood

This is exam question 4 of lesson 46 «Sun 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	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	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 childhood	case
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	sunburn	childhood		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sunburn=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

It has no consequence for later health

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 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 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 health	case
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 health	advmod
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no consequence				for health	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Patient

Option 2

It affects only children in cold countries

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 affects	nsubj
2	affects	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 children	advmod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 affects	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 affects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	present	It	children		cold countries			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It protects the skin against all future burns

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 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	8 burns	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 burns	det
7	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 burns	amod
8	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	It	the skin				against all future burns	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary against burn=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It increases the likelihood of skin cancer later in life

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 increases	nsubj
2	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 likelihood	det
4	likelihood	likelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increases	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cancer	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cancer	compound
7	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likelihood	nmod
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 increases	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increases	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	It	the likelihood of skin cancer		life		late property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer likelihood=Patient

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