Exam question 2 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

Identify the organism responsible for the condition commonly termed ringworm.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, condition · What happens: identify, term · To what, where: organism, ringworm

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 organism	det
3	organism	organism	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 condition	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 condition	det
7	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	obl
8	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	9 termed	advmod
9	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 condition	acl:relcl
10	ringworm	ringworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 termed	obj
11	.	.	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 organism				responsible property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme
2	term	past	the condition not said here	ringworm				commonly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringworm=Theme

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

A bacterium causing yellow crusts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bacterium	det
2	bacterium	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causing	nsubj
3	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crusts	amod
5	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 causing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund	a bacterium	yellow crusts					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crust=Patient

Option 2

A virus lying dormant in the nerves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 virus	det
2	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 virus	acl
4	dormant	dormant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lying	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nerves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nerves	det
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a virus not said here			the nerves		dormant property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nerve=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A fungus infecting the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fungus	det
2	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	infecting	infect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fungus	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 infecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	infect	gerund	a fungus not said here	the skin					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Destination

Option 4

A parasitic worm beneath the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worm	det
2	parasitic	parasitic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 worm	amod
3	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worm	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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