Exam question 1 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

Identify the most frequent cause of sore throats in children.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: frequent cause, sore throats

This is exam question 1 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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	5 cause	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 frequent	advmod
4	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 throats	case
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throats	amod
8	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 throats	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the frequent cause of sore throats in children					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	cause			sore throats in children					nom cause «event 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

Consumption of cold confectionery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 confectionery	case
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 confectionery	amod
4	confectionery	confectionery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			cold confectionery					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Excessive use of the voice alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	amod
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 voice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	nmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use			the voice					nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Bacterial infection invariably requiring a course of antibiotics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bacterial	bacterial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 infection	amod
2	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	2 infection	advmod
4	requiring	require	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 infection	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 course	det
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 requiring	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 antibiotics	case
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 course	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	gerund	Bacterial infection not said here	a course of antibiotics					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme course=Precondition

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Viral infection, which commonly resolves within one week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 infection	amod
2	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 resolves	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 resolves	nsubj
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	6 resolves	advmod
6	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 infection	acl:relcl
7	within	within	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 week	nummod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present	Viral infection				week	commonly property	tree rules

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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