Exam question 3 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning cigarettes, vapes and alcohol in respect of children.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish, respect · To what, where: response, respect, children

This is exam question 3 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cigarettes	amod
12	cigarettes	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 facts	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vapes	punct
14	vapes	vape	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cigarettes	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 alcohol	cc
16	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cigarettes	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 respect	case
18	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 children	case
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 respect	nmod
21	.	.	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		respect of children	with the established facts and concerning cigarettes and vapes and alcohol; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	respect			children			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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

They cause harm to a body which is still growing

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	2 cause	nsubj
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 growing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 growing	advmod
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 body	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	They	harm				to a body	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient
2	grow	present · progressive	a body				still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are harmful solely to persons of advanced age

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	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 harmful	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 persons	case
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harmful	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 age	case
8	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 age	amod
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					to persons of advanced age; harmful, solely property	tree rules

Option 3

They are harmless when consumed in small amounts

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 harmless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 consumed	advmod
5	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harmless	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 amounts	case
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amounts	amod
8	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					harmless property	tree rules
2	consume	participle	They not said here			small amounts			vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Vapes alone are harmless to a growing body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vapes	vape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harmless	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Vapes	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 body	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harmless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Vapes					to a growing body; harmless property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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