Exam question 3 · Exercise and posture

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the so-called stitch experienced during running.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, call, run · To what, where: response, called stitch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» 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	14 stitch	det
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 called	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 so	punct
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stitch	amod
14	stitch	stitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
15	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stitch	amod
16	during	during	ADP	_	17 running	case
17	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 experienced	obl
18	.	.	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 called stitch		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stitch=Experiencer
4	call	participle				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It is invariably caused by dehydration

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	4 caused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 caused	advmod
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 dehydration	case
6	dehydration	dehydration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	dehydration	It				invariably property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 2

It denotes a failure of the heart

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	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 failure	det
4	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 failure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a failure of the heart					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot failure=Topic
2	fail		the heart						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

It denotes a fracture of the lower ribs

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	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fracture	det
4	fracture	fracture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 ribs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ribs	det
7	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ribs	amod
8	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fracture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It	a fracture of the lower ribs					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fracture=Topic
2	fracture			the lower ribs					nom fracture «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its precise cause remains uncertain and it is not dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cause	nmod:poss
2	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cause	amod
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remains	nsubj
4	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remains	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dangerous	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dangerous	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dangerous	advmod
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 uncertain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remain	present	Its precise cause	uncertain property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present	cause	dangerous property	tree rules
3	cause		Its = it		nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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