Exam question 3 · Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the British road signs of the late 1950s and 1960s.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, sign · To what, where: response, British road signs, late 1950s

This is exam question 3 of lesson 33 «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 signs	det
11	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 signs	amod
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signs	compound
13	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 1950s	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 1950s	det
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 1950s	amod
17	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 signs	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 1960s	cc
19	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 1950s	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the British road signs of the late 1950s and 1960s		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sign=Experiencer
4	sign			the late 1950s and 1960s		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 computer designed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 computer	det
2	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 designed	nsubj
3	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 designed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	design	past	a computer	them = they					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kinneir and Calvert designed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinneir	Kinneir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Calvert	cc
3	Calvert	Calvert	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kinneir	conj
4	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 designed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	design	past	Kinneir and Calvert	them = they					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result

Option 3

They were selected at random from foreign examples without alteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 selected	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 selected	aux:pass
3	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 random	case
5	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selected	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 examples	case
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 examples	amod
8	examples	example	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 selected	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 alteration	case
10	alteration	alteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past · passive		They		random		from foreign examples; without alteration	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from example=Source

Option 4

They were painted by hand by a single individual over many decades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 painted	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 hand	case
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 individual	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 individual	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 individual	amod
9	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 decades	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 decades	amod
12	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive	hand	They			decade	by a single individual	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by individual=Destination

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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