Exam question 4 · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing
Determine the duration of hand-washing with soap and water ordinarily recommended.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, recommend · To what, where: duration, water
This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duration | det |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 washing | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 7 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duration | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 soap | case |
| 9 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 water | cc |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | conj |
| 12 | ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 13 recommended | advmod |
| 13 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 water | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the duration of hand washing with soap and water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | ||||
| 2 | recommend | participle | water not said here | ordinarily property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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
Approximately five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Approximately two seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 seconds | nummod |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately twenty seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 twenty | advmod |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 seconds | nummod |
| 3 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No minimum duration is recommended
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 duration | det |
| 2 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duration | amod |
| 3 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recommended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 recommended | aux:pass |
| 5 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present · passive | no minimum duration | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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