Exam question 2 · Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks

Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the maximum daily quantity of free sugars recommended for a child aged between seven and ten years.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: issue, determine, recommend, age · To what, where: guidance, maximum daily quantity, free sugars, child

This is exam question 2 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	10 determine	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 guidance	case
3	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pursuant	obl
4	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 guidance	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 Kingdom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Kingdom	det
7	United	United	PROPN	_	8 Kingdom	flat
8	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 issued	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pursuant	punct
10	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 quantity	det
12	maximum	maximum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 quantity	amod
13	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 quantity	amod
14	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determine	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sugars	case
16	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sugars	amod
17	sugars	sugar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 quantity	nmod
18	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sugars	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 child	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 child	det
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 recommended	obl
22	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 child	acl
23	between	between	ADP	_	24 seven	case
24	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 years	nummod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ten	cc
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 seven	conj
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 aged	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		guidance not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the maximum daily quantity of free sugars		pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic
3	recommend	participle		free sugars not said here		for a child	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute
4	age	participle		a child not said here	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Approximately two hundred grams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 grams	nummod
4	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Approximately two grams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 two	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 grams	nummod
3	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately twenty-four grams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 four	advmod
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 four	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twenty	punct
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 grams	nummod
5	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

No maximum is prescribed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 maximum	det
2	maximum	maximum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prescribed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prescribed	aux:pass
4	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prescribe	present · passive		no maximum					tree rules

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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