Exam question 4 · Gaming nights and the morning after

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning energy drinks and children.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, energy drinks

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drinks	compound
11	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drinks	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	energy drinks and children		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer

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

They are a recommended substitute for sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 substitute	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 substitute	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 substitute	det
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 substitute	amod
5	substitute	substitute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 substitute	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	They	a recommended substitute				for sleep	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They contain no caffeine whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 caffeine	det
4	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 contain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	They	no caffeine				whatsoever property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot caffeine=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They contain caffeine and are not recommended for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 recommended	cc
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 recommended	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 recommended	advmod
7	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 contain	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 recommended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	They	caffeine					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot caffeine=Theme
2	not recommend	present · passive	They not said here					for children	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for child=Attribute

Option 4

They are prescribed for young athletes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prescribed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prescribed	aux:pass
3	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 athletes	case
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 athletes	amod
6	athletes	athlete	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prescribed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prescribe	present · passive		They				for young athletes	tree rules

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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