Exam question 3 · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Determine, pursuant to the established guidance, when a child who has had a fever may return to school.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: establish, have, return · To what, where: fever

This is exam question 3 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	Determine	Determine	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guidance	punct
3	pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	7 guidance	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 guidance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guidance	det
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guidance	amod
7	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 return	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 return	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 child	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fever	det
16	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 return	aux
18	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 guidance	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 school	case
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 return	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
2	have	present · perfect	a child	a fever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
3	return	may	a child		to school result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result

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

One week after the fever first began

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 week	nummod
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 fever	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fever	det
5	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 week	nmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 began	advmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past					week	first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Immediately after taking a dose of medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 taking	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 taking	mark
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dose	det
5	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 medicine	case
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dose	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a dose of medicine				immediately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme

Option 3

When the fever is at its very highest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 highest	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fever	det
3	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 highest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 highest	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 highest	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 highest	nmod:poss
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 highest	advmod
8	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fever					high property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

When there has been no fever for at least a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 been	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fever	det
6	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 been	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 day	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 day	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 been	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present · perfect	no fever			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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