Exam question 4 · Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning cold water shock.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, cold water shock

This is exam question 4 of lesson 71 «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» 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 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shock	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shock	compound
12	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	.	.	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 facts not said here	cold water shock		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shock=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

A condition prevented by a substantial lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 condition	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 lunch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lunch	det
6	substantial	substantial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lunch	amod
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	participle		a condition not said here				by a substantial lunch	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

A pleasant sensation of warmth upon entry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sensation	det
2	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sensation	amod
3	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 warmth	case
5	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sensation	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 entry	case
7	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sensation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			warmth				upon entry	nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=patient upon=obl

Option 3

A condition occurring only in water below freezing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 condition	acl
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 water	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurring	obj
7	below	below	ADP	_	8 freezing	case
8	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	gerund	a condition not said here	water		freezing			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Uncontrolled gasping which subsides within approximately ninety seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncontrolled	uncontroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gasping	amod
2	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 subsides	nsubj
4	subsides	subside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gasping	acl:relcl
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 seconds	case
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	7 ninety	advmod
7	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seconds	nummod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 subsides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uncontroll	participle							tree rules
2	subside	present	Uncontrolled gasping				second		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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