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title: Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant eff… — Energy drinks: why they're not for kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant effect of energy drinks. Exam question 1 of lesson 52 «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» 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 
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# Exam question 1 · Energy drinks: why they're not for kids

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Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant effect of energy drinks.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, effect · **To what, where:** principal constituent, energy drinks

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 52 «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» 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/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal constituent responsible for the stimulant effect of energy drinks.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	constituent	constituent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stimulant	stimulant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal constituent |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent constituent=Theme |
| 2 | **effect** |  |  | energy drinks |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids:e1:o1:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sodium chloride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids:e1:o2:1
# text = Sodium chloride
1	Sodium	sodium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chloride	chloride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Vitamin C

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids:e1:o3:1
# text = Vitamin C
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Caffeine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids:e1:o4:1
# text = Caffeine
1	Caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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