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title: Ascertain the principal reason for which milk is regarded as a suita… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the principal reason for which milk is regarded as a suitable beverage following exercise. Exam question 4 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 4 · Breakfast before a match and food after

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Ascertain the principal reason for which milk is regarded as a suitable beverage following exercise.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, regard, follow · **To what, where:** principal reason, milk

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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/53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the principal reason for which milk is regarded as a suitable beverage following exercise.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	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	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beverage	beverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 2 | **regard** | present · passive |  | milk |  |  |  | for the principal reason; as a suitable beverage and following exercise | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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It cools the muscles directly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:e4:o1:1
# text = It cools the muscles directly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | present | It | the muscles |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |

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

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It supplies fluid, protein and calcium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:e4:o2:1
# text = It supplies fluid, protein and calcium
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	supplies	supply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	calcium	calcium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | present | It | fluid and protein and calcium |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fluid=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is suitable exclusively for infants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:e4:o3:1
# text = It is suitable exclusively for infants
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	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	infants	infant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | for infants; exclusively, suitable *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It contains a high concentration of caffeine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:e4:o4:1
# text = It contains a high concentration of caffeine
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | It | a high concentration of caffeine |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot concentration=Theme |

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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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