--- title: Identify the principal cause to which exercise-associated muscular c… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the principal cause to which exercise-associated muscular cramp is at present attributed. Exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Food myths and fads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Food myths and fads Identify the principal cause to which exercise-associated muscular cramp is at present attributed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, principal, exercise associated muscular cramp · **What happens:** identify, cause, associate, be, attribute · **To what, where:** present This is exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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/55-food-myths-and-fads/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:e1:1 # text = Identify the principal cause to which exercise-associated muscular cramp is at present attributed. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 principal principal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obl _ _ 7 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 associated associate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 10 muscular muscular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 cramp cramp NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 15 attributed attribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | present | the principal | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **associate** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | exercise associated muscular cramp | | | present | | | tree rules | | 5 | **attribute** | participle | | present *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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} A deficiency of bananas ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:e1:o1:1 # text = A deficiency of bananas 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 deficiency deficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The temperature of the footwear ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:e1:o2:1 # text = The temperature of the footwear 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 footwear footwear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} An excess of water ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:e1:o3:1 # text = An excess of water 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 excess excess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Muscular fatigue ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:e1:o4:1 # text = Muscular fatigue 1 Muscular muscular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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