Exam question 1 · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Identify the conduct appropriate to a person choking who remains able to cough.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, choke, remain, cough · To what, where: conduct

This is exam question 1 of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obl
8	choking	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 person	acl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 remains	nsubj
10	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 choking	ccomp
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remains	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cough	mark
13	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conduct	appropriate property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	choke	gerund	a person not said here			tree rules
3	remain	present			able property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cough	to-infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The person should lie down and remain silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lie	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 remain	cc
7	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	conj
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remain	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	should	the person					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain	present	the person not said here					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The person should drink a large glass of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 glass	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glass	amod
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glass	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	should	the person	a large glass of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The person should continue to cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continue	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 continue	aux
4	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cough	mark
6	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continue	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	should	the person						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cough	to-infinitive	the person not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The person should be struck hard on the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 struck	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 struck	aux:pass
5	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 struck	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	should · passive		the person				on the head; hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument on head=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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