Exam question 4 · Sleep, exercise and growing up

Determine the consequence for a muscle that is not exercised.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, not exercise · To what, where: consequence, muscle

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 muscle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 muscle	det
6	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consequence	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 exercised	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 exercised	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 exercised	advmod
10	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 muscle	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the consequence				for a muscle	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic
2	not exercise	present · passive		a muscle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: that=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

It becomes bone

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	bone					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It becomes stronger

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It is unaltered

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 unaltered	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unaltered	cop
3	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It becomes weaker

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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