Exam question 1 · Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there

Identify the principal reason for which visitors to a museum are requested to refrain from touching works of art.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, art · What happens: identify, request, refrain, touch, work · To what, where: principal reason, visitors, works

This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» of the arts 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	12 requested	obl
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 requested	nsubj:pass
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 museum	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 museum	det
10	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visitors	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 requested	aux:pass
12	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 refrain	mark
14	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 requested	xcomp
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 touching	mark
16	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 refrain	advcl
17	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 touching	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 art	case
19	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 works	nmod
20	.	.	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	request	present · passive		visitors to a museum	for the principal reason	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	refrain	to-infinitive				vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	touch	gerund		works of art		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme
5	work		art			nom work «act intransitive»: of=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

The wetness of the paint upon the canvas, which adheres to the hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wetness	det
2	wetness	wetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adheres	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 paint	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 paint	det
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wetness	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 canvas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canvas	det
8	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wetness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 adheres	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 adheres	nsubj
11	adheres	adhere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 adheres	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adhere	present	the wetness of the paint upon the canvas					to the hands	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hand=Co-Theme

Option 2

The wish of the attendants to exercise authority

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 attendants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 attendants	det
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wish	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 exercise	mark
7	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	acl
8	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exercise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exercise	to-infinitive		authority					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient
2	wish		the attendants						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The cumulative damage occasioned by oils and moisture from the hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 damage	det
2	cumulative	cumulative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 damage	amod
3	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 damage	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 oils	case
6	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 occasioned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 moisture	cc
8	moisture	moisture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oils	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 occasioned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	participle		the cumulative damage not said here		the hands		by oils and moisture	tree rules

Option 4

The danger of electric shock from the frames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 danger	det
2	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shock	case
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shock	amod
5	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danger	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 frames	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 frames	det
8	frames	frame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 danger	nmod

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

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