Exam question 3 · Sleep, exercise and growing up

Identify the principal reason for which astronauts exercise daily in space.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, astronauts · What happens: identify, exercise · To what, where: principal reason, space

This is exam question 3 of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 exercise	obl
7	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exercise	nsubj
8	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	daily	daily	ADV	_	8 exercise	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 space	case
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exercise	obl
12	.	.	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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	exercise	present	astronauts			space		for the principal reason; daily property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

To preserve the strength of their muscles and bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 preserve	mark
2	preserve	preserve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strength	det
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 preserve	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 muscles	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 muscles	nmod:poss
7	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strength	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bones	cc
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 muscles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	to-infinitive		the strength of their muscles and bones					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Beneficiary

Option 2

To increase their weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 increase	mark
2	increase	increase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 weight	nmod:poss
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	to-infinitive		their weight					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer weight=Patient

Option 3

To generate warmth within the vessel during the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 generate	mark
2	generate	generate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 generate	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 vessel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 generate	obl
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 generate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	generate	to-infinitive		warmth			night	within the vessel	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warmth=Patient

Option 4

To propel the vessel through space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 propel	mark
2	propel	propel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vessel	det
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 propel	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 propel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propel	to-infinitive		the vessel		space			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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