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description: Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning survival without nourishment. Exam question 3 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Exam question 3 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

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Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning survival without nourishment.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, response, established facts · **What happens:** select, be, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response, survival

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» of the world 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/world/36-healthy-food/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:e3:1
# text = Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning survival without nourishment.
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	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the response |  |  |  |  | with the established facts; consistent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | survival |  |  |  | without nourishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus survival=Experiencer |

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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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A person may survive equally long without either

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:e3:o1:1
# text = A person may survive equally long without either
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | may | a person |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme either=Circumstance |

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

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A person may survive weeks without food but only days without water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:e3:o2:1
# text = A person may survive weeks without food but only days without water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | may | a person |  |  |  | week | without food but days; without water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A person may survive weeks without water but only days without food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:e3:o3:1
# text = A person may survive weeks without water but only days without food
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | may | a person |  |  |  | week | without water; without food | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A person may survive indefinitely without water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:36-healthy-food:e3:o4:1
# text = A person may survive indefinitely without water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | may | a person |  |  |  |  | without water; indefinitely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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