Exam question 1 · Sore the next day, stretching and rest days

Identify the principal cause of muscular soreness experienced one to two days after unaccustomed exercise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, muscular soreness · What happens: identify, experience · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Sore the next day, stretching and rest days» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 experienced	mark
6	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soreness	amod
7	soreness	soreness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 experienced	nsubj
8	experienced	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	acl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 two	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 one	nmod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 experienced	obj
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 exercise	case
14	unaccustomed	unaccustomed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 exercise	amod
15	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 experienced	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	experience	past	muscular soreness	the principal cause not said here			after unaccustomed exercise; day		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus

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

Deficiency of sports drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 drinks	case
3	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drinks	compound
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deficiency	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Minute strains in the muscle undergoing repair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minute	minute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 strains	amod
2	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 muscle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 muscle	det
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strains	nmod
6	undergoing	undergoing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 repair	amod
7	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muscle	conj

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

Option 3

Fracture of the underlying bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fracture	fracture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
4	underlying	underlying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fracture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fracture			the underlying bones					nom fracture «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The retention of lactic acid in the muscle for several days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 retention	det
2	retention	retention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 acid	case
4	lactic	lactic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 acid	amod
5	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retention	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 muscle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 muscle	det
8	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retention	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 muscle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain			lactic acid		the muscle for several days			nom retention «act transitive»: of=patient in=place

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