Exam question 2 · "It worked once": one example is not all

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the duration of a common cold in the absence of treatment.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 164 «"It worked once": one example is not all» of the world 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duration	det
11	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cold	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cold	det
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cold	amod
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 duration	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 absence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 absence	det
18	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cold	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 treatment	case
20	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 absence	nmod
21	.	.	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	the duration		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duration=Experiencer
4	absent			treatment		nom absence «state 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

It ordinarily persists for several months

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 persists	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 persists	advmod
3	persists	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 months	amod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 persists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persist	present	It				month	ordinarily property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It never resolves without a glass of hot whiskey taken at bedtime

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 resolves	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 resolves	advmod
3	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resolves	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 whiskey	case
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whiskey	amod
9	whiskey	whiskey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nmod
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 whiskey	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 bedtime	case
12	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not resolve	present	It					without a glass of hot whiskey	tree rules
2	take	participle		hot whiskey not said here		bedtime			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at bedtime=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It ordinarily resolves within approximately seven to ten days

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 resolves	nsubj
2	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	3 resolves	advmod
3	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	9 days	case
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 seven	advmod
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 ten	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 seven	nmod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 resolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present	It				day	ordinarily property	tree rules

Option 4

It resolves within approximately one hour

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 resolves	nsubj
2	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	within	within	ADP	_	6 hour	case
4	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present	It				hour		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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