Exam question 3 · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of depression.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, characterise · To what, where: accurate characterisation, depression

This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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	5 characterisation	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 characterisation	amod
5	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 depression	case
7	depression	depression	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterisation	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the accurate characterisation of depression					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic
2	characterise			depression					nom characterisation «communication 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

An infection transmitted by contact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 infection	det
2	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 infection	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 contact	case
5	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	participle		a infection not said here				by contact	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

An illness affecting mood, energy and thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	affecting	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 illness	acl
4	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affecting	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 energy	punct
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mood	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	gerund	a illness not said here	mood and energy and thought					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mood=Experiencer

Option 3

A transient sadness of an afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sadness	det
2	transient	transient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sadness	amod
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 afternoon	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 afternoon	det
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sadness	nmod

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

Option 4

A form of idleness and lack of will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 form	det
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 idleness	case
4	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lack	cc
6	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 form	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 will	case
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lack	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			idleness					nom form «communication 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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