Exam question 1 · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

Identify the principal criterion distinguishing a lawful mural from an act of vandalism.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal criterion, vandalism · What happens: identify, distinguish, act · To what, where: principal criterion, lawful mural

This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» 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 criterion	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 criterion	amod
4	criterion	criterion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	distinguishing	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 criterion	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mural	det
7	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mural	amod
8	mural	mural	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distinguishing	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 act	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 act	det
11	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distinguishing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 vandalism	case
13	vandalism	vandalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 act	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal criterion		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent criterion=Theme
2	distinguish	gerund	the principal criterion not said here	a lawful mural	from a act of vandalism	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mural=Theme from act=Co-Theme
3	act		vandalism			nom act «communication 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 time of day at which it is painted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 painted	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 painted	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 painted	aux:pass
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive		it			at the time of day		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme at which=Destination

Option 2

The colour of the paint employed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
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 colour	nmod
6	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 colour	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	participle		the colour of the paint not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The permission of the owner of the property

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 permission	det
2	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 owner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owner	det
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permission	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 property	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 property	det
8	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit			the owner of the property					nom permission «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The artistic merit of the image

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merit	det
2	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merit	amod
3	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 image	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 image	det
6	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 merit	nmod

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

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