Exam question 3 · Picking teams and being picked last

Select the response consistent with the established findings concerning social exclusion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established findings · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, social exclusion

This is exam question 3 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» 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 findings	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 findings	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 findings	amod
8	findings	finding	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 findings	acl
10	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 exclusion	amod
11	exclusion	exclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	.	.	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 findings not said here	social exclusion		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus exclusion=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 · ← Mova's choice

It engages no region of the brain whatsoever

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 engages	nsubj
2	engages	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 region	det
4	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 engages	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 region	nmod
8	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 engages	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	present	It	no region of the brain				whatsoever property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient

Option 2

It produces sensations confined to the feet

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 produces	nsubj
2	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sensations	sensation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produces	obj
4	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sensations	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feet	det
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	It	sensations					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Result
2	confine	participle		sensations not said here		the feet			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to foot=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It engages certain regions of the brain associated with physical pain

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 engages	nsubj
2	engages	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 regions	amod
4	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 engages	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brain	det
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 regions	nmod
8	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brain	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pain	case
10	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pain	amod
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 associated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	present	It	certain regions of the brain					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient
2	associate	participle		the brain not said here				with physical pain	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with pain=Co-Patient

Option 4

It invariably results in physical injury

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	3 results	nsubj
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	3 results	advmod
3	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 injury	case
5	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 injury	amod
6	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 results	nmod

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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