Exam question 3 · The age of science

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the disease of smallpox.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, disease

This is exam question 3 of lesson 29 «The age of science» of the history 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 disease	det
11	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 smallpox	case
13	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disease	nmod
14	.	.	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	the disease of smallpox		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus disease=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was eradicated by vaccination in nineteen hundred and eighty

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 eradicated	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eradicated	aux:pass
3	eradicated	eradicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 vaccination	case
5	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eradicated	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hundred	case
7	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eradicated	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eighty	cc
10	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eradicate	past · passive	vaccination	It		nineteen hundred			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

It was never a cause of death

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	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cause	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cause	det
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	a cause				of death	tree rules

Option 3

It remains common throughout the world

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 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remains	xcomp
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 common	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It					common property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It was cured by the consumption of citrus fruit in great quantity

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 cured	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cured	aux:pass
3	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 consumption	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 consumption	det
6	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cured	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
8	citrus	citrus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruit	amod
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consumption	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 quantity	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quantity	amod
12	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fruit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	past · passive	the consumption of citrus fruit in great quantity	It					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer subject=Source
2	consume			citrus fruit in great quantity					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

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