Exam question 1 · COVID and staying home

Identify the agent responsible for the disease designated COVID-19.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, disease · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: agent, COVID

This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» 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 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 disease	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 disease	det
7	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	obl
8	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 disease	acl
9	COVID	COVID	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 designated	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 19	punct
11	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 COVID	flat
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 agent				responsible property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme
2	designate	participle	the disease not said here	COVID					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covid=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 · ✓ the right answer

The coronavirus designated SARS-CoV-2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coronavirus	det
2	coronavirus	coronavirus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 coronavirus	acl
4	SARS	SARS	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 designated	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 CoV	punct
6	CoV	CoV	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 SARS	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 2	punct
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 CoV	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle	the coronavirus not said here	SARS					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sars=Theme

Option 2

Exposure to cold weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exposure	exposure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 weather	case
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weather	amod
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exposure	nmod

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

Option 3

A bacterium transmitted through contaminated water

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	root	root
3	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bacterium	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	contaminated	contaminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	participle		a bacterium not said here		contaminated water			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	contaminate	participle							vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A fungus of the respiratory tract

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	of	of	ADP	_	6 tract	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tract	det
5	respiratory	respiratory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tract	amod
6	tract	tract	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fungus	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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