Exam question 4 · Sleep and healthy eating

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning raw eggs, raw flour and uncooked meat.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, raw eggs

This is exam question 4 of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eggs	amod
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flour	punct
13	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flour	amod
14	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eggs	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 meat	cc
16	uncooked	uncooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 meat	amod
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flour	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	raw eggs and raw flour and uncooked meat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus egg=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

They are harmful only when eaten in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harmful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmful	cop
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 eaten	mark
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harmful	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					harmful property	tree rules
2	eat	participle	They not said here				evening		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are safe provided they have been refrigerated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 provided	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 provided	aux:pass
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 provided	amod
4	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 refrigerated	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 refrigerated	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 refrigerated	aux:pass
8	refrigerated	refrigerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 provided	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	present · passive		They					tree rules
2	refrigerate	present · perfect · passive		they					tree rules

Option 3

They are safer than cooked food, as nothing is destroyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safer	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safer	cop
3	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safer	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 destroyed	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 destroyed	mark
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 destroyed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 destroyed	aux:pass
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 safer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		than cooked food; safe property	tree rules
2	cook	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	destroy	present · passive		nothing		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They may carry germs and are eaten only when properly cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eaten	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 carry	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 cooked	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 cooked	advmod
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	11 cooked	advmod
11	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eaten	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	may	They	germs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	eat	present · passive	They not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
3	cook	participle	They not said here		properly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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