Exam question 1 · Bad news, protests and helping others

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a strike?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: strike

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 strike	det
10	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a strike				of the following statements; accurately property	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

Option 1

A holiday granted to employees by their employer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 holiday	det
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 holiday	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 employees	case
5	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 granted	obl:agent
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 employer	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 employer	nmod:poss
8	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	participle		a holiday not said here				by employees's employer	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A collective cessation of work in pursuit of improved pay or conditions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cessation	det
2	collective	collective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cessation	amod
3	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 work	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cessation	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pursuit	case
7	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pay	case
9	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pay	amod
10	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pursuit	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 conditions	cc
12	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	improve	participle		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cease		work in pursuit of improved pay or conditions	nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient
3	pursue		improved pay or conditions	nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A punishment imposed upon workers by the government for poor performance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 punishment	det
2	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 punishment	acl
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 workers	case
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 imposed	obl:agent
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 government	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 government	det
8	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imposed	obl:agent
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 performance	case
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 performance	amod
11	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imposed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	participle		a punishment not said here				for poor performance	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

An unlawful act in every circumstance whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 act	det
2	unlawful	unlawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 act	amod
3	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 circumstance	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 circumstance	det
6	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 act	nmod
7	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 act	advmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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