Exam question 3 · Vaccinations and why

Ascertain the disease which, pursuant to a worldwide programme of vaccination, was declared eradicated in 1980.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, vaccination · What happens: ascertain, declare, eradicate, programme · To what, where: disease, 1980

This is exam question 3 of lesson 29 «Vaccinations and why» 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 disease	det
3	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Ascertain	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 programme	punct
6	pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	10 programme	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 programme	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 programme	det
9	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 programme	amod
10	programme	programme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 vaccination	case
12	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 programme	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 declared	aux:pass
15	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	parataxis
16	eradicated	eradicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 declared	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1980	case
18	1980	1980	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 eradicated	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the disease		to a worldwide programme of vaccination	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Beneficiary which=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past · passive					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme
3	eradicate	participle			1980		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	programme		vaccination				nom programme «communication 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

Smallpox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Seasonal influenza

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 influenza	amod
2	influenza	influenza	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Measles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Poliomyelitis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poliomyelitis	poliomyelitis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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