Exam question 1 · Why we sleep when ill
Identify the principal origin of the somnolence experienced during an infectious illness.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, experience · To what, where: principal origin, somnolence
This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Why we sleep when ill» 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 origin | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 origin | amod |
| 4 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 somnolence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 somnolence | det |
| 7 | somnolence | somnolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 origin | nmod |
| 8 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 somnolence | acl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 illness | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 illness | det |
| 11 | infectious | infectious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 illness | amod |
| 12 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 experienced | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal origin of the somnolence | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent origin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | experience | participle | the somnolence not said here | during a infectious illness | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Insufficient stimulation at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stimulation | amod |
| 2 | stimulation | stimulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stimulation | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Direct consumption of energy by the pathogen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 consumption | amod |
| 2 | consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 energy | case |
| 4 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consumption | nmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pathogen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pathogen | det |
| 7 | pathogen | pathogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consumption | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | the pathogen | energy | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Chemical messengers released by the immune system
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 messengers | amod |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 messengers | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 system | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 system | det |
| 6 | immune | immune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 system | compound |
| 7 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 released | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | participle | Chemical messengers not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer |
Option 4
The invariable effect of medicaments
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 effect | det |
| 2 | invariable | invariable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 effect | amod |
| 3 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 medicaments | case |
| 5 | medicaments | medicament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 effect | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | effect | medicaments | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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