Exam question 1 · Gaming nights and the morning after

Identify the principal physiological effect of an intensely competitive video game played immediately prior to sleep.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal physiological effect · What happens: identify, play, sleep · To what, where: principal physiological effect

This is exam question 1 of lesson 57 «Gaming nights and the morning 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	5 effect	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 effect	amod
4	physiological	physiological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 effect	amod
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 game	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
8	intensely	intensely	ADV	_	9 competitive	advmod
9	competitive	competitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 game	amod
10	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	compound
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 played	obl
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 effect	acl:relcl
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	14 prior	advmod
14	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 played	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prior	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal physiological effect		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	play	past	the principal physiological effect not said here		of a competitive video game; prior property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive	the principal physiological effect not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 reduction of the heart rate to its minimum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reduction	det
2	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rate	det
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rate	compound
6	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduction	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 minimum	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 minimum	nmod:poss
9	minimum	minimum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce			the heart rate				to rate's minimum	nom reduction «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl

Option 2

The immediate induction of deep sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 induction	det
2	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 induction	amod
3	induction	induction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sleep	amod
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 induction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	induct			deep sleep					nom induction «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

No effect of any description

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 effect	det
2	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 description	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 description	det
5	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	effect			any description					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The release of adrenaline, which delays the onset of sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 release	det
2	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delays	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 adrenaline	case
4	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 release	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delays	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 delays	nsubj
7	delays	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 onset	det
9	onset	onset	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delays	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sleep	case
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 onset	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delay	present	the release of adrenaline	the onset of sleep					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent onset=Source

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