Exam question 4 · Antibiotics, viruses and side effects

Ascertain the individual credited with the observation, in 1928, of the antibacterial action of a mould.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mould · What happens: ascertain, credit, act · To what, where: individual, 1928

This is exam question 4 of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 individual	det
3	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	credited	credit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 individual	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 observation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 observation	det
7	observation	observation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 credited	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 1928	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1928	case
10	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Ascertain	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 action	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 action	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 action	det
14	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 action	amod
15	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mould	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mould	det
18	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 action	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the individual	1928	of the antibacterial action of a mould	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent individual=Topic
2	credit	participle		the individual not said here		with the observation	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with observation=Theme
3	act		a mould				nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Alexander Fleming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Fleming	Fleming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	flat

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

Option 2

Edward Jenner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Edward	Edward	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jenner	compound
2	Jenner	Jenner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Louis Pasteur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Louis	flat

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

Option 4

Joseph Lister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lister	Lister	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Joseph	flat

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

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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