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Exam question 3 · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★

A rumour grows from «a van was outside» to «he was evicted». Select the version most likely closest to the truth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rumour, van, you · What happens: grow, be, evict, select · To what, where: rumour, version

This is exam question 3 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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

Sentence 1: A rumour grows from «a van was outside» to «he was evicted».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rumour	det
2	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 outside	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 outside	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 van	det
7	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outside	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 outside	cop
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 grows	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 outside	punct
11	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 evicted	mark
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 evicted	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 evicted	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 evicted	aux:pass
15	evicted	evict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grows	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 evicted	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a rumour						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	a van					outside property	tree rules
3	evict in a quote	past · passive		rumour					vn remove-10.1 «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.

Sentence 2: Select the version most likely closest to the truth.

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 version	det
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 Select	advmod
6	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Select	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 truth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closest	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the version				likely property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme

The options

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

The first and plainest version: a van was outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 version	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 version	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 plainest	cc
4	plainest	plain	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 version	amod
5	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 van	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 van	det
8	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 version	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 outside	cop
10	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 van	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a van not said here					outside property	tree rules

Option 2

The middle version, as an average of the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 version	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 version	amod
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 average	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 average	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 average	det
7	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 version	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 others	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 average	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	average			the others					nom average «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Whichever version was told by the most people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whichever	Whichever	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 version	compound
2	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the most people	Whichever version					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 4

The latest version, because it has been repeated most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 version	det
2	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 version	amod
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 most	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 repeated	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 repeated	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 repeated	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 repeated	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 repeated	aux:pass
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 version	acl:relcl
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present · perfect · passive	the latest version not said here	version					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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