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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the development of the COVID-19 vaccines. Exam question 3 of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 3 · COVID and staying home

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, develop · **To what, where:** response, development, COVID 19 vaccines

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» of the medicine 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	COVID	COVID	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the development of the COVID 19 vaccines |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus development=Experiencer |
| 4 | **develop** |  |  | the COVID 19 vaccines |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They were developed over a period of fifty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:e3:o1:1
# text = They were developed over a period of fifty years
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past · passive |  | They |  | a period of fifty years |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They were tested upon tens of thousands of volunteers, building upon decades of research

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:e3:o2:1
# text = They were tested upon tens of thousands of volunteers, building upon decades of research
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | past · passive |  | They |  |  | decade | upon tens of thousands of volunteers and building | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They were released without any trial whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:e3:o3:1
# text = They were released without any trial whatsoever
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  | without any trial; whatsoever *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They consist solely of saline solution

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:12-covid-and-staying-home:e3:o4:1
# text = They consist solely of saline solution
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	consist	consist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	saline	saline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	solution	solution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | They |  |  |  |  | of saline solution; solely *property* | tree rules |

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**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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