Exam question 2 · COVID and staying home

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a pandemic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: pandemic

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pandemic	det
10	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a pandemic				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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 seasonal increase in colds within one town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 increase	det
2	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 increase	amod
3	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 colds	case
5	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 increase	nmod
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 town	nummod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increase	nmod

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

Option 2

An outbreak confined to a single household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 outbreak	det
2	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 outbreak	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 household	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 household	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 household	amod
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	participle		a outbreak not said here		a single household			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to household=Destination

Option 3

A disease affecting animals exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 disease	det
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	affecting	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 disease	acl
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 affecting	obj
5	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 affecting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	gerund	a disease not said here	animals				exclusively property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A novel disease disseminated across many countries in the absence of immunity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 disease	det
2	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disease	compound
3	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	disseminated	disseminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 disease	acl
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disseminated	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 absence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 absence	det
10	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disseminated	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 immunity	case
12	immunity	immunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 absence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disseminate	participle		a novel disease not said here		many countries		in the absence of immunity	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	absent			immunity					nom absence «state transitive»: of=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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