Exam question 1 · Needles and brave faces

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the fear of needles.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, fear · To what, where: response, fear, needles

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fear	det
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 needles	case
13	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fear	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the fear of needles		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer
4	fear			needles		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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

It is indicative of a disorder of the blood

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 indicative	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 indicative	cop
3	indicative	indicative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 disorder	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disorder	det
6	disorder	disorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicative	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 blood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blood	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disorder	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	indicative				of a disorder of the blood	tree rules
2	disorder			the blood					nom disorder «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is common amongst both children and 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	3 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	6 children	cc:preconj
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 common	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 adults	cc
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 children	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					amongst children and adults; common property	tree rules

Option 3

It is confined to infants and young children

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 confined	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 confined	aux:pass
3	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 infants	case
5	infants	infant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 confined	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 children	cc
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 infants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	present · passive		It	infants and young children				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to infant=Destination

Option 4

It is unknown amongst 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	3 unknown	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unknown	cop
3	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 unknown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					amongst adults; unknown property	tree rules

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