Exam question 2 · Boredom, excitement and pride

Identify the principal danger associated with a state of great excitement.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, associate · To what, where: principal danger

This is exam question 2 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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	4 danger	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 danger	compound
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 danger	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 state	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 state	det
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 associated	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 excitement	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 excitement	amod
11	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 state	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal danger					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
2	associate	participle		the principal danger not said here				with a state of great excitement	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with state=Co-Patient

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 right answer

It becomes easy to cease noticing dangers such as wet floors, roads and water

The tree, 14 words

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cease	mark
5	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	xcomp
6	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dangers	amod
7	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cease	obj
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 floors	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 floors	amod
11	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roads	punct
13	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 floors	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 water	cc
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floors	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	present	It		easy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cease	to-infinitive		noticing dangers	such wet floors and roads and water	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality danger=Eventuality
3	notice	gerund				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It invariably leads to illness unless the person sleeps for a whole day

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 leads	nsubj
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	3 leads	advmod
3	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 illness	case
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leads	obl
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 sleeps	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleeps	nsubj
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leads	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	It					to illness; invariably property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to illness=Patient
2	sleep a condition, not said to happen	present	the person				day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It causes the body to become far too heavy to move for a period of several hours afterwards

The tree, 18 words

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 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 become	mark
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	advcl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 heavy	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 heavy	advmod
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heavy	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 period	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 period	det
14	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hours	case
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 period	nmod
18	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	11 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	the body		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition body=Patient
2	become	to-infinitive			heavy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	move	to-infinitive			for a period of several hours; afterwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It makes a person unable to hear any sound at all for the rest of the day

The tree, 17 words

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hear	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 rest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	a person				unable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material person=Product
2	hear	to-infinitive	a person not said here	any sound		all		for the rest of the day	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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