Exam question 2 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

Identify the organisms against which antibiotics are effective.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, antibiotics · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: organisms

This is exam question 2 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» 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 organisms	det
3	organisms	organism	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 effective	obl
6	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 effective	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 effective	cop
8	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 organisms	acl:relcl
9	.	.	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 organisms					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme
2	is	present	antibiotics					against the organisms; 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

Fungi alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Fungi	advmod

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

Option 2

All germs without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 germs	det
2	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 exception	case
4	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 germs	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Viruses alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Viruses	advmod

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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