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title: Ascertain which statement most accurately characterises the vegetari… — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain which statement most accurately characterises the vegetarian diet in childhood. Exam question 4 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · What vitamins do

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Ascertain which statement most accurately characterises the vegetarian diet in childhood.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, statement · **What happens:** ascertain, characteris · **To what, where:** vegetarian diet, childhood

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» 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/21-what-vitamins-do/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:e4:1
# text = Ascertain which statement most accurately characterises the vegetarian diet in childhood.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **characteris** | present | which statement | the vegetarian diet |  | childhood |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It invariably results in protein deficiency

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:e4:o1:1
# text = It invariably results in protein deficiency
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It can supply all requisite nutrients if suitably varied

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:e4:o2:1
# text = It can supply all requisite nutrients if suitably varied
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	requisite	requisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	suitably	suitably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | can | It | all requisite nutrients |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It necessitates daily injections of vitamins and of protein

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:e4:o3:1
# text = It necessitates daily injections of vitamins and of protein
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	necessitates	necessitate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	injections	injection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **necessitate** | present | It | daily injections of vitamins and protein |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme injection=Precondition |
| 2 | **inject** |  |  | vitamins and protein |  |  |  |  | nom injection «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is incompatible with growth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:e4:o4:1
# text = It is incompatible with growth
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	incompatible	incompatible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | with growth; incompatible *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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