Exam question 1 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

Identify the principal purpose of the age rating attached to a film.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, age rating · What happens: identify, attach, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose, age rating

This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» 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 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 rating	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rating	det
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rating	compound
8	rating	rating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
9	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rating	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 film	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 film	det
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attached	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of the age rating		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	attach	participle		the age rating not said here	to a film	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to film=Co-Patient
3	purpose		the age rating			nom purpose «cognition 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 augmentation of the film's appeal to children by the promise of excitement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 augmentation	det
2	augmentation	augmentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 appeal	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 film	case
7	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 augmentation	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 appeal	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 promise	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 promise	det
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 augmentation	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 excitement	case
14	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	nmod

#	verb	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	augment	the promise of excitement	the film's appeal to children		nom augmentation «event transitive»: of=patient by=agent
2	appeal	the film		to children	nom appeal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl
3	promise		excitement		nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The duration of the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duration	det
2	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 film	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 duration	nmod

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

Option 3

The prohibition of all films to adult audiences unless accompanied by children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accompanied	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 films	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 films	det
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prohibition	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 audiences	case
7	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 audiences	amod
8	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 films	nmod
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 accompanied	mark
10	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 accompanied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle · passive	children	the prohibition of all films to adult audiences					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	prohibit			all films to adult audiences					nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Guidance on its content

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 content	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 content	nmod:poss
4	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guidance	nmod

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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