Exam question 2 · Ill on match day: play or stay home?

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fever-reducing medication taken prior to sport?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, reduce, take, effect · To what, where: effect, fever reducing medication

This is exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 effect	det
10	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 medication	case
12	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 medication	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fever	punct
14	reducing	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 medication	amod
15	medication	medication	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 effect	nmod
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 medication	acl
17	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	19 sport	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 prior	fixed
19	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the effect of fever reducing medication	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	reduce	gerund			vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
4	take	participle	fever reducing medication not said here	prior sport	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	effect		fever reducing medication		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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

It eradicates the infection entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eradicates	nsubj
2	eradicates	eradicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 infection	det
4	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eradicates	obj
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 eradicates	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eradicate	present	It	the infection				entirely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme

Option 2

It prevents transmission to teammates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prevents	nsubj
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	transmission	transmission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 teammates	case
5	teammates	teammate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevents	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	present	It	transmission				to teammates	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer transmission=Theme

Option 3

It renders participation entirely safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 renders	nsubj
2	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	participation	participation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 renders	obj
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 participation	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 renders	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present	It	participation				safe property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent participation=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It conceals the sign whilst the infection persists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 conceals	nsubj
2	conceals	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conceals	obj
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	8 persists	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 infection	det
7	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 persists	nsubj
8	persists	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 conceals	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	present	It	the sign					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
2	persist	present	the infection						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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