Exam question 1 · Posture and eyes for sporty kids

Identify the principal means by which prolonged sitting is best counteracted.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal · What happens: identify, mean, prolong, sit, counteract · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 58 «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 prolonged	mark
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 prolonged	nsubj
7	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 prolonged	xcomp
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 counteracted	aux:pass
10	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 counteracted	advmod
11	counteracted	counteract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sitting	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	mean	present	the principal		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prolong	past			tree rules
4	sit	gerund			tree rules
5	counteract	present · passive		well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.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

The acquisition of a specialised and costly gaming chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acquisition	det
2	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 chair	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
5	specialised	specialis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 chair	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 costly	cc
7	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 specialised	conj
8	gaming	gaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chair	compound
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquisition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specialis	participle							tree rules
2	acquire			a specialised gaming chair					nom acquisition «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Reclining further into the seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reclining	recline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	further	further	ADV	_	1 Reclining	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 seat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seat	det
5	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reclining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recline	gerund				the seat		further property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Remaining entirely motionless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	1 Remaining	advmod
3	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remaining	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund						entirely, motionless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Frequent movement and changes of position

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 movement	amod
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 changes	cc
4	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 movement	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 position	case
6	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change		position						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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