Exam question 4 · What vitamins do

Ascertain which statement most accurately characterises the vegetarian diet in childhood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, statement · What happens: ascertain, characteris · To what, where: vegetarian diet, childhood

This is exam question 4 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 statement	det
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 characterises	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurately	advmod
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 characterises	advmod
6	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 diet	det
8	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 diet	amod
9	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 characterises	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 childhood	case
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 characterises	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	characteris	present	which statement	the vegetarian diet		childhood		accurately property	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

It invariably results in protein deficiency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 results	nsubj
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	3 results	advmod
3	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 deficiency	case
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deficiency	compound
6	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 results	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It can supply all requisite nutrients if suitably varied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 supply	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 supply	aux
3	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nutrients	det
5	requisite	requisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nutrients	amod
6	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 supply	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 varied	mark
8	suitably	suitably	ADV	_	9 varied	advmod
9	varied	varied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 supply	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	can	It	all requisite nutrients					vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Recipient

Option 3

It necessitates daily injections of vitamins and of protein

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 necessitates	nsubj
2	necessitates	necessitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 injections	amod
4	injections	injection	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 necessitates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 vitamins	case
6	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 injections	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 protein	cc
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 protein	case
9	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vitamins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	necessitate	present	It	daily injections of vitamins and protein					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme injection=Precondition
2	inject			vitamins and protein					nom injection «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

It is incompatible with growth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 incompatible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incompatible	cop
3	incompatible	incompatible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 growth	case
5	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 incompatible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					with growth; incompatible property	tree rules

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