Exam question 1 · Food myths and fads

Identify the principal cause to which exercise-associated muscular cramp is at present attributed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal, exercise associated muscular cramp · What happens: identify, cause, associate, be, attribute · To what, where: present

This is exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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 principal	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nsubj
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 present	obl
7	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cramp	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 exercise	punct
9	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cramp	amod
10	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cramp	amod
11	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 present	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 present	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 present	case
14	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	ccomp
15	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 present	acl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cause	present	the principal			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	associate	participle				vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	exercise associated muscular cramp		present	tree rules
5	attribute	participle		present not said here		tree rules

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

A deficiency of bananas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 deficiency	det
2	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bananas	case
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 deficiency	nmod

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

Option 2

The temperature of the footwear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temperature	det
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 footwear	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 footwear	det
5	footwear	footwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 temperature	nmod

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

Option 3

An excess of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 excess	det
2	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Muscular fatigue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fatigue	amod
2	fatigue	fatigue	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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