Exam question 3 · Police, courts and prison

Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "sent down" as employed in respect of a convicted person.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, most · What happens: select, characteris, send down, employ, convict, respect · To what, where: response, expression, respect, convicted person

This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» 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	_	9 expression	punct
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 expression	acl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sent	compound:prt
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 employed	mark
15	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sent	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 respect	case
17	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 employed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 person	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 person	det
20	convicted	convict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 person	amod
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 respect	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	send down in a quote	participle		the expression not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	employ	participle			respect of a convicted person	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	convict	participle				tree rules
6	respect			a convicted person		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Relocated to a lower floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Relocated	relocate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 floor	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 floor	amod
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Relocated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relocate	participle						to a lower floor	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Committed to prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Committed	committed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prison	amod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 prison	mark
3	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Demoted in employment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Demoted	demote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 employment	case
3	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Demoted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demote	participle				employment			tree rules

Option 4

Released without charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	without	without	ADP	_	3 charge	case
3	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	participle						without charge	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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