Exam question 2 · Why we sleep when ill

Whereas a febrile patient reports sensations of cold accompanied by shivering, determine the most accurate explanation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: febrile patient, you · What happens: report, accompany, shiver, determine · To what, where: sensations, accurate explanation

This is exam question 2 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 reports	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 patient	det
3	febrile	febrile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 patient	amod
4	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reports	nsubj
5	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 determine	advcl
6	sensations	sensation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reports	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cold	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sensations	nmod
9	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sensations	acl
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 shivering	mark
11	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 accompanied	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 determine	punct
13	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 explanation	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 accurate	advmod
16	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 explanation	amod
17	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 determine	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	report	present	a febrile patient	sensations of cold	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Patient
2	accompany	participle		sensations of cold not said here	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shiver	gerund			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	determine	imperative	you not said here	the accurate explanation	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Topic

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

The body temperature is rising towards a raised setting determined by the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	compound
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rising	aux
5	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 setting	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 setting	det
8	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 setting	amod
9	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	obl
10	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 setting	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 brain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brain	det
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	present · progressive	the body temperature		a raised setting		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards setting=Initial_Location
2	raise	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	determine	participle		a raised setting not said here		by the brain	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The ambient temperature is excessively low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
2	ambient	ambient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 temperature	amod
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 low	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 low	cop
5	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	6 low	advmod
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ambient temperature					excessively, low property	tree rules

Option 3

The patient is suffering from frostbite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 patient	det
2	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffering	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suffering	aux
4	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 frostbite	case
6	frostbite	frostbite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present · progressive	the patient			frostbite			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The body temperature is falling dangerously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	compound
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 falling	aux
5	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	5 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · progressive	the body temperature					dangerously property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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