Exam question 3 · What people leave behind

Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "to have a pet put to sleep".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, most, expression · What happens: select, characteris, have, put · To what, where: response, expression, pet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 characterises	nsubj
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 most	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 expression	det
9	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 put	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pet	det
14	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 expression	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 sleep	case
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	characteris	present	most	the expression		tree rules
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive		a pet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Patient
4	put in a quote	infinitive	the expression not said here		to sleep	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To have a veterinary surgeon end its life painlessly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 end	det
4	veterinary	veterinary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surgeon	compound
5	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	compound
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
9	painlessly	painlessly	ADV	_	2 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		a surgeon end				painlessly property	tree rules

Option 2

To transfer it permanently to another household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 transfer	mark
2	transfer	transfer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 transfer	obj
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	2 transfer	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 household	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 household	det
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transfer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	to-infinitive		it	another household			permanently property	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to household=Recipient

Option 3

To leave it overnight at a boarding kennel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 leave	mark
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obj
4	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	2 leave	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 kennel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kennel	det
7	boarding	boarding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kennel	compound
8	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		it		a boarding kennel		overnight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at kennel=Location

Option 4

To administer medicine so that it sleeps for a long period

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 administer	mark
2	administer	administer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 administer	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 sleeps	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleeps	nsubj
7	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 administer	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 period	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 period	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 period	amod
11	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	to-infinitive		medicine					vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
2	sleep	present	medicine					for a long period	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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