Exam question 1 · The right dose and never more than

Identify the principal hazard associated with an excessive dose of paracetamol.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, associate · To what, where: principal hazard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» 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	4 hazard	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hazard	amod
4	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hazard	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 dose	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dose	det
8	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dose	amod
9	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 associated	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 paracetamol	case
11	paracetamol	paracetamol	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dose	nmod
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 principal hazard					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hazard=Theme
2	associate	participle		the principal hazard not said here				with a excessive dose of paracetamol	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with dose=Co-Patient

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

An immediate and harmless drowsiness, passing within the hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drowsiness	det
2	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drowsiness	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 harmless	cc
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 immediate	conj
5	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passing	punct
7	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 drowsiness	acl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	a immediate drowsiness not said here				hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No hazard whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 hazard	det
2	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 hazard	advmod

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

Option 3

An improvement in the efficacy of the medicine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 improvement	det
2	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 efficacy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 efficacy	det
5	efficacy	efficacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improvement	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 medicine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 medicine	det
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 efficacy	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Serious damage to the liver, which may initially be without symptoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 damage	amod
2	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 liver	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 liver	det
5	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damage	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 symptoms	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 symptoms	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 symptoms	aux
9	initially	initially	ADV	_	12 symptoms	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 symptoms	cop
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 symptoms	case
12	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 damage	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	Serious damage to the liver and symptoms					without symptoms; initially property	tree rules

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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