Exam question 4 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the discovery of penicillin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, discover · To what, where: response, discovery, penicillin

This is exam question 4 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	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 discovery	det
13	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 penicillin	case
15	penicillin	penicillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 discovery	nmod
16	.	.	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	the discovery of penicillin		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus discovery=Experiencer
5	discover			penicillin		nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Alexander Fleming discovered it in 1928

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 discovered	nsubj
2	Fleming	Fleming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	flat
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 discovered	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1928	case
6	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 discovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Alexander	it		1928			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Louis Pasteur discovered it in 1928

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 discovered	nsubj
2	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Louis	flat
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 discovered	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1928	case
6	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 discovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Louis	it		1928			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Alexander Fleming discovered it in 1828

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 discovered	nsubj
2	Fleming	Fleming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	flat
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 discovered	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1828	case
6	1828	1828	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 discovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Alexander	it		1828			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

It was discovered in ancient Egypt

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 discovered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 discovered	aux:pass
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Egypt	case
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Egypt	amod
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 discovered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · passive		It		ancient Egypt			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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