Exam question 3 · Heat, sun and cold on sports day

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning ultraviolet radiation on an overcast day.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, ultraviolet radiation

This is exam question 3 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

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	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 radiation	amod
11	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	overcast	overcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	compound
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	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	ultraviolet radiation	day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus radiation=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Ultraviolet radiation penetrates cloud cover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 radiation	amod
2	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penetrates	nsubj
3	penetrates	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	compound
5	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 penetrates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penetrate	present	Ultraviolet radiation	cloud cover					vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient

Option 2

Ultraviolet radiation is present only at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 radiation	compound
2	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 present	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 present	cop
4	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 dawn	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 present	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ultraviolet radiation				dawn	present property	tree rules

Option 3

Ultraviolet radiation is present only above thirty degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 radiation	compound
2	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 present	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 present	cop
4	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 degrees	advmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 degrees	case
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 degrees	nummod
8	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 present	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ultraviolet radiation			thirty degrees		present property	tree rules

Option 4

Cloud cover eliminates ultraviolet radiation entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	compound
2	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eliminates	nsubj
3	eliminates	eliminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 radiation	amod
5	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eliminates	obj
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 eliminates	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eliminate	present	Cloud cover	ultraviolet radiation				entirely property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=Patient

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