Exam question 2 · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

Identify the substances that are effective against bacteria but not against viruses.

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substances	det
3	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 effective	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 effective	cop
6	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 substances	acl:relcl
7	against	against	ADP	_	8 bacteria	case
8	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 effective	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 viruses	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 viruses	advmod
11	against	against	ADP	_	12 viruses	case
12	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bacteria	conj
13	.	.	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 substances					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	is	present	the substances					against bacteria but viruses; effective property	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

Vitamins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Soap and water alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Soap	conj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Soap	advmod

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

Option 3

Vaccines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Antibiotics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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