Exam question 4 · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

Identify the principal reason for which the expression «boosts the immune system» in commercial advertising warrants scepticism.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, expression · What happens: identify, boost, warrant · To what, where: principal reason, immune system, scepticism, commercial advertising · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 boosts	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 expression	det
8	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boosts	nsubj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 boosts	punct
10	boosts	boost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 system	det
12	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 system	compound
13	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boosts	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 boosts	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 advertising	case
16	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 advertising	amod
17	advertising	advertising	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warrants	obl
18	warrants	warrant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boosts	conj
19	scepticism	scepticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warrants	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	boost in a quote	present	the expression	the immune system		for the principal reason	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme
3	warrant	present	the expression not said here	scepticism	commercial advertising		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 right answer

It is a marketing phrase and not an established medical claim

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	5 phrase	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 phrase	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 phrase	det
4	marketing	marketing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phrase	compound
5	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 claim	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 claim	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 claim	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 claim	amod
10	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 claim	amod
11	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phrase	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a marketing phrase and a established medical claim					tree rules
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

It refers exclusively to adults

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 refers	nsubj
2	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 refers	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 refers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refer	present	It					to adults; exclusively property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to adult=Co-Theme

Option 3

It is prohibited by medical law

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 prohibited	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prohibited	aux:pass
3	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 law	amod
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prohibited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive	medical law	It					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 4

It denotes a prescription-only medicine

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 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 medicine	det
4	prescription	prescription	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 medicine	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 prescription	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 medicine	advmod
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a prescription medicine					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot medicine=Topic

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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