Exam question 4 · Asthma and inhalers
State the most common precipitant of asthma attacks in children.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓
This is exam question 4 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 precipitant | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 common | advmod |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 precipitant | amod |
| 5 | precipitant | precipitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 attacks | case |
| 7 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacks | compound |
| 8 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 precipitant | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attacks | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Viral infections such as the common cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viral | viral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 infections | amod |
| 2 | infections | infection | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 cold | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cold | det |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cold | amod |
| 7 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 infections | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Prolonged reading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reading | amod |
| 2 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Consumption of vegetables at mealtimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 vegetables | case |
| 3 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Consumption | nmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 mealtimes | case |
| 5 | mealtimes | mealtime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Consumption | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | vegetables | mealtimes | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient at=place |
Option 4
Drinking cold water rapidly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drinking | obj |
| 4 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 1 Drinking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | gerund | cold water | rapidly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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