Exam question 4 · Police, courts and prison

Determine the principal reason for which speed limits are imposed in the vicinity of schools and dwellings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, impose · To what, where: principal reason, speed limits, vicinity

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 imposed	obl
7	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 limits	compound
8	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 imposed	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 imposed	aux:pass
10	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 vicinity	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vicinity	det
13	vicinity	vicinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 imposed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 schools	case
15	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vicinity	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dwellings	cc
17	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 schools	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	impose	present · passive		speed limits		the vicinity of schools and dwellings		for the principal reason	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Teachers object to the noise of traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 object	compound
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 noise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 object	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 traffic	case
7	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		traffic						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Lower speeds reduce the cost of fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 speeds	amod
2	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reduce	nsubj
3	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cost	det
5	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reduce	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fuel	case
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present	Lower speeds	the cost of fuel					vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cost=Patient
2	cost			fuel					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Higher speeds cause more serious accidents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 speeds	amod
2	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 serious	advmod
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 accidents	amod
6	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Higher speeds	serious accidents					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=Patient

Option 4

Speed cameras require slow-moving vehicles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cameras	compound
2	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 require	nsubj
3	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moving	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct
6	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 vehicles	amod
7	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 require	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Speed cameras	moving vehicles					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vehicle=Precondition
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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