Exam question 1 · Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how…

Identify the principal reason for which a child may encounter an adult film without intending to do so.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, encounter, intend, do · To what, where: principal reason, adult film

This is exam question 1 of lesson 58 «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» 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	Identify	identify	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 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 encounter	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 encounter	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 encounter	aux
10	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
12	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 film	amod
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 encounter	obj
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 intending	mark
15	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 encounter	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 intending	xcomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	encounter	may	a child	a adult film	for the principal reason	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus
3	intend	gerund	a child not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

A wish on the child's part to behave badly in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 behave	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 part	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 behave	mark
9	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 behave	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 secret	case
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 behave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	to-infinitive	a wish on the child's part			secret		badly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A legal obligation upon all streaming services

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 obligation	det
2	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 obligation	amod
3	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 services	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 services	det
6	streaming	streaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 services	compound
7	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 obligation	nmod

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

Option 3

A requirement imposed by the school curriculum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 requirement	det
2	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 requirement	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 curriculum	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curriculum	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curriculum	compound
7	curriculum	curriculum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imposed	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Autoplay, shared devices, links or late broadcasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Autoplay	Autoplay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 devices	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 devices	punct
3	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 devices	amod
4	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 links	punct
6	links	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 devices	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 broadcasts	cc
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 broadcasts	amod
9	broadcasts	broadcast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 devices	conj

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

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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