Exam question 4 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

State the period during which a child with chickenpox ought to remain absent from school.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: remain

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	during	during	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 remain	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remain	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 chickenpox	case
9	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 remain	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remain	mark
12	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 period	acl:relcl
13	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remain	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 school	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 absent	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 period	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	ought	a child with chickenpox				during the State period	absent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

For one day irrespective of the spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	irrespective	irrespective	ADV	_	3 day	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 spots	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spots	det
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	nmod

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

Option 2

For no period whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 period	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 period	advmod

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

Option 3

Until the first spot has appeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	SCONJ	_	6 appeared	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spot	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 spot	amod
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	aux
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present · perfect	the first spot						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Until all the spots have crusted over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	SCONJ	_	6 crusted	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 spots	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spots	det
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crusted	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crusted	aux
6	crusted	crust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 crusted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crust over	present · perfect	all spots					over property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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