Exam question 4 · Energy drinks: why they're not for kids

Ascertain the course of action appropriate where a child experiences palpitations accompanied by faintness following consumption of an energy drink during play.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, course, child · What happens: ascertain, appropriate, experience, accompany, follow, consume · To what, where: course, palpitations, energy drink

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appropriate	obl
6	appropriate	appropriate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 course	acl:relcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 experiences	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 experiences	nsubj
10	experiences	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 appropriate	advcl
11	palpitations	palpitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 experiences	obj
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 palpitations	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 faintness	case
14	faintness	faintness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accompanied	obl
15	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 consumption	amod
16	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 faintness	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 drink	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drink	det
19	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drink	compound
20	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 consumption	nmod
21	during	during	ADP	_	22 play	case
22	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drink	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the course		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
2	appropriate	present	the course not said here		of action	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	experience	present	a child	palpitations		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palpitation=Stimulus
4	accompany	participle		palpitations not said here	by faintness and following consumption of a energy drink during play	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by faintness=Destination
5	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	consume			a energy drink during play		nom consumption «act 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 · ✓ the right answer

Play is to cease and emergency services are to be summoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cease	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cease	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cease	mark
4	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 summoned	cc
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 services	compound
7	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 summoned	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 summoned	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 summoned	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 summoned	aux:pass
11	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cease	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Play					cease property	tree rules
2	summon	present · passive		emergency services					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Play is to continue in order to expend the caffeine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continue	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 continue	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 continue	mark
4	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 expend	mark
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 in	fixed
7	to	to	PART	_	8 expend	mark
8	expend	expend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continue	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 caffeine	det
10	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Play					continue property	tree rules
2	expend	to-infinitive	Play not said here	the caffeine					tree rules

Option 3

A further energy drink is to be administered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
2	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	compound
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 administered	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 administered	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	8 administered	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 administered	aux:pass
8	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	present · passive		a further energy drink					vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The child is to be instructed to hold his breath

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 instructed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 instructed	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 instructed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 instructed	aux:pass
6	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 instructed	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 breath	nmod:poss
10	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present · passive		the child					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold	to-infinitive		child's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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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