Exam question 4 · Exercise and posture

Ascertain the most accurate characterisation of muscular soreness arising one or two days after unaccustomed exercise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, muscular soreness · What happens: ascertain, arise, characterise · To what, where: accurate characterisation, muscular soreness

This is exam question 4 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	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	_	8 soreness	case
7	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soreness	amod
8	soreness	soreness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterisation	nmod
9	arising	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 soreness	acl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	conj
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arising	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 exercise	case
15	unaccustomed	unaccustomed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 exercise	amod
16	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 days	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the accurate characterisation of muscular soreness		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic
2	arise	gerund	muscular soreness not said here		day	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	characterise			muscular soreness		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 · ← Mova's choice

A certain indication of serious injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate			serious injury					nom indication «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A symptom of an infectious disease of the muscles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 symptom	det
2	symptom	symptom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 disease	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disease	det
5	infectious	infectious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 disease	amod
6	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 symptom	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 muscles	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 muscles	det
9	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 disease	nmod

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

Option 3

Evidence of fractured bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 bone	case
3	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bone	amod
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Evidence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fracture	participle							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	evidence			fractured bone					nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A normal consequence of the muscles adapting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
2	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 consequence	amod
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 muscles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 muscles	det
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consequence	nmod
7	adapting	adapt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 consequence	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adapt	gerund	a normal consequence of the muscles not said here						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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