Exam question 4 · Eczema and other skin troubles
State the effect of repeatedly licking chapped lips.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State effect · What happens: lick, chap · To what, where: chapped lips
This is exam question 4 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 effect | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 effect | det |
| 3 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 licking | mark |
| 5 | repeatedly | repeatedly | ADV | _ | 6 licking | advmod |
| 6 | licking | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 effect | acl |
| 7 | chapped | chap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lips | amod |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 licking | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 effect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | gerund | the State effect not said here | chapped lips | repeatedly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | |||
| 2 | chap | participle | 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
The chapping is entirely prevented by saliva
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chapping | det |
| 2 | chapping | chapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prevented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevented | aux:pass |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 5 prevented | advmod |
| 5 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 saliva | case |
| 7 | saliva | saliva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prevented | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | present · passive | saliva | the chapping | entirely property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme |
Option 2
The lips are protected from cold wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lips | det |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 protected | aux:pass |
| 4 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wind | amod |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 protected | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present · passive | cold wind | the lips | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
Option 3
The lips are moisturised and healed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lips | det |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moisturised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moisturised | aux:pass |
| 4 | moisturised | moisturis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 healed | cc |
| 6 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 moisturised | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moisturis | present · passive | the lips | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | heal | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The chapping is aggravated
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chapping | det |
| 2 | chapping | chapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aggravated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aggravated | aux:pass |
| 4 | aggravated | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | present · passive | the chapping | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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