Exam question 3 · Food myths and fads
Pursuant to guidance issued in the United Kingdom, determine the daily quantity of vitamin D which all persons should consider taking during autumn and winter.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: issue, determine, consider, take · To what, where: guidance, daily quantity
This is exam question 3 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 | Pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 10 determine | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 guidance | case |
| 3 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determine | 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 | _ | 3 guidance | punct |
| 10 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quantity | det |
| 12 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quantity | amod |
| 13 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 determine | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 D | case |
| 15 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 D | compound |
| 16 | D | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quantity | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 consider | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 persons | det |
| 19 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 consider | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 consider | aux |
| 21 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 quantity | acl:relcl |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 consider | xcomp |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 autumn | case |
| 24 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taking | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 winter | cc |
| 26 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 autumn | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 daily quantity of vitamin D | to guidance; pursuant property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic | |||
| 3 | consider | should | all persons | the daily quantity of vitamin D | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | all persons not said here | autumn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Ten micrograms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 micrograms | nummod |
| 2 | micrograms | microgram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ten grams
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 grams | nummod |
| 2 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten milligrams per hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 milligrams | nummod |
| 2 | milligrams | milligram | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | per | per | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 milligrams | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No quantity whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 quantity | det |
| 2 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 quantity | advmod |
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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