Exam question 1 · Energy drinks: why they're not for kids
Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant effect of energy drinks.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, effect · To what, where: principal constituent, energy drinks
This is exam question 1 of lesson 52 «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» 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 constituent | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 constituent | amod |
| 4 | constituent | constituent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 constituent | amod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 effect | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 effect | det |
| 8 | stimulant | stimulant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 effect | compound |
| 9 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 responsible | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 drinks | case |
| 11 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drinks | compound |
| 12 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 effect | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 constituent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent constituent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | effect | energy drinks | nom effect «phenomenon 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
Water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sodium chloride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sodium | sodium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chloride | compound |
| 2 | chloride | chloride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Vitamin C
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 C | compound |
| 2 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Caffeine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caffeine | caffeine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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