Exam question 2 · Heat, sun and cold on sports day
It is given that a child remains confused and is no longer perspiring notwithstanding thirty minutes of cooling. State the appropriate action.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: give, remain, perspire, notwithstand · To what, where: It
This is exam question 2 of lesson 50 «Heat, sun and cold on sports day» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a child remains confused and is no longer perspiring notwithstanding thirty minutes of cooling.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 remains | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remains | nsubj |
| 7 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remains | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 perspiring | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 perspiring | aux |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 perspiring | advmod |
| 13 | perspiring | perspire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 remains | conj |
| 14 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 perspiring | xcomp |
| 15 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 minutes | nummod |
| 16 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 notwithstanding | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cooling | case |
| 18 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minutes | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | present | a child | confused property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perspire | present · progressive | a child not said here | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | notwithstand | gerund | a child not said here | minute | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: State the appropriate action.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 action | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 action | det |
| 3 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 action | amod |
| 4 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 action | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The child is to be given an energy drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 given | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drink | det |
| 8 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | compound |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient drink=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Emergency services are to be summoned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 services | compound |
| 2 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 summoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 summoned | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 summoned | aux:pass |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | present · passive | Emergency services | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
Option 3
The child is to resume participation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resume | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 resume | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 resume | mark |
| 5 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | participation | participation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resume | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the child | resume property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The child is to be permitted to sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 permitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 permitted | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permitted | aux:pass |
| 6 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permitted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | present · passive | the child | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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