Exam question 3 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning survival without nourishment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, survival

This is exam question 3 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» 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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 nourishment	case
14	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	survival	without nourishment	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus survival=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 person may survive equally long without either

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	equally	equally	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 survive	advmod
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 either	case
8	either	either	CCONJ	_	4 survive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	may	a person					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme either=Circumstance

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A person may survive weeks without food but only days without water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 days	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 days	advmod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	conj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	may	a person				week	without food but days; without water	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A person may survive weeks without water but only days without food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 days	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 days	advmod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	conj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	may	a person				week	without water; without food	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A person may survive indefinitely without water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	_	4 survive	advmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	may	a person					without water; indefinitely property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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