Exam question 4 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago…

Ascertain the conduct appropriate should a dog venture onto the ice of a frozen pond.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, freeze · To what, where: conduct, ice

This is exam question 4 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 venture	amod
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 venture	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 venture	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 venture	compound
8	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 ice	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 pond	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pond	det
14	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pond	amod
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ice	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the conduct		the ice of a frozen pond			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition conduct=Beneficiary venture=Theme
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

The owner should crawl onto the ice in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawl	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crawl	aux
4	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 ice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawl	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 silence	case
9	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	should	the owner			the ice in silence			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No person should follow the animal onto the ice, and assistance should be summoned

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obj
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 ice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summoned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 summoned	cc
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 summoned	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 summoned	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 summoned	aux:pass
15	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 follow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	should	no person	the animal		the ice			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme onto ice=Trajectory
2	summon	should · passive		assistance					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Stones should be thrown in order to break the ice beneath the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrown	aux:pass
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrown	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrown	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 dog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	should · passive		Stones		order			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in order=Destination
2	break	to-infinitive		the ice				beneath the dog	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ice=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The owner should proceed rapidly onto the ice to recover the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proceed	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 proceed	aux
4	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	4 proceed	advmod
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ice	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proceed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 recover	mark
10	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proceed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	should	the owner			the ice		rapidly property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	recover	to-infinitive	the owner not said here	the dog					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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