Exam question 3 · Eczema and other skin troubles

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning warts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warts	amod
10	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response				consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

They are caused by a virus and frequently resolve unaided

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 virus	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virus	det
6	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 resolve	cc
8	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	9 resolve	advmod
9	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	conj
10	unaided	unaided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 resolve	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	a virus	They					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	resolve	infinitive	a virus not said here					frequently, unaided property	tree rules

Option 2

They require surgical removal in every case, without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	surgical	surgical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 removal	amod
4	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 exception	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 exception	case
10	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	They	surgical removal		every case			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme removal=Precondition

Option 3

They are acquired by handling toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 acquired	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acquired	aux:pass
3	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 handling	mark
5	handling	handle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 acquired	advcl
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	present · passive		They					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
2	handle	gerund		toads					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme

Option 4

They are caused by the consumption of fried food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 consumption	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 consumption	det
6	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 food	case
8	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	the consumption of fried food	They	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	fry	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	consume			fried food	nom consumption «act 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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