Exam question 1 · Losing well and winning well

Identify the principal reason for which anger may be expressed impulsively immediately following competitive defeat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, express, follow · To what, where: principal reason, anger, competitive defeat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 expressed	obl
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expressed	nsubj:pass
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 expressed	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 expressed	aux:pass
10	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	impulsively	impulsively	ADV	_	10 expressed	advmod
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 following	advmod
13	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 expressed	advcl
14	competitive	competitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 defeat	amod
15	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 following	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	express	may · passive		anger	for the principal reason; impulsively property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	follow	gerund		competitive defeat	immediately property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme

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

An excess of oxygen in the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 excess	det
2	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxygen	case
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Dehydration of the muscles of the arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dehydration	dehydration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 muscles	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 muscles	det
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dehydration	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arm	det
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muscles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dehydrate			the muscles of the arm					nom dehydration «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The influence of the opposing team's supporters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 influence	det
2	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 supporters	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 team	det
5	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 team	amod
6	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supporters	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 team	case
8	supporters	supporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 influence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oppose	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Elevated adrenaline precedes the restraint of deliberate thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 adrenaline	amod
2	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precedes	nsubj
3	precedes	precede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 restraint	det
5	restraint	restraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precedes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 thought	case
7	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	amod
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 restraint	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	elevate	participle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	precede	present	Elevated adrenaline	the restraint of deliberate thought	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme restraint=Co-Theme
3	restrain			deliberate thought	nom restraint «act transitive»: of=patient

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