Exam question 1 · Breakfast before a match and food after
Identify the interval recommended between the consumption of a substantial meal and the commencement of sport.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, interval · What happens: identify, recommend, consume · To what, where: substantial meal
This is exam question 1 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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 | 3 interval | det |
| 3 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | nsubj |
| 4 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | ccomp |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 consumption | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 consumption | det |
| 7 | consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 meal | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meal | det |
| 10 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meal | amod |
| 11 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consumption | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commencement | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 commencement | det |
| 14 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meal | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sport | case |
| 16 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commencement | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | recommend | past | the interval | between the consumption of a substantial meal and the commencement of sport | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | consume | a substantial meal and the commencement of sport | 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
Approximately two to three days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 5 days | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 three | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | nmod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately two to three hours
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 | 5 hours | nummod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 three | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | nmod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Approximately two to three minutes
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 | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 three | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | nmod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No interval is required
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 interval | det |
| 2 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 required | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 required | aux:pass |
| 4 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present · passive | no interval | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
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