Exam question 1 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

Identify the region of the brain principally responsible for the fear response observed in a child subjected to shouting.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, observe, subject · To what, where: region, fear response, child

This is exam question 1 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 region	nmod
7	principally	principally	ADV	_	8 responsible	advmod
8	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brain	amod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 response	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 response	det
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 response	compound
12	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 responsible	obl
13	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 response	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 observed	obl
17	subjected	subject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 child	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 shouting	case
19	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 subjected	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the region of the brain		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme
2	observe	participle		the fear response not said here	in a child	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	subject	participle		a child not said here	to shouting	tree rules

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 cerebellum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cerebellum	det
2	cerebellum	cerebellum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The spinal cord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cord	det
2	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cord	amod
3	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The eardrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eardrum	det
2	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The amygdala

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 amygdala	det
2	amygdala	amygdala	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline/e1/