Exam question 4 · Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10:…

Which of the following correctly identifies the condition of the sunshine tap at the close of the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, identify, condition · To what, where: condition, sunshine tap

This is exam question 4 of lesson 642 «Book of Dragons, The Deliverers of Their Country, part 10: the children escape the dragon and find the room of weather taps» of the books 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 condition	det
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 tap	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tap	det
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tap	compound
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 condition	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 close	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 close	det
15	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tap	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 passage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 passage	det
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present	the condition of the sunshine tap at the close of the passage	correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
3	condition		the sunshine tap at the close of the passage		nom condition «state 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 · ✓ the right answer

It was broken, so that it could not be turned off altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 turned	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 turned	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	aux:pass
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 broken	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 turned	compound:prt
13	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		It					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not turn off	could · passive		it				altogether property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It was turned on fully and could be turned off again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	fully	fully	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 turned	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn on	past · passive		It				fully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	turn off	could · passive					again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

Option 3

It was broken and it kept on leaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	conj
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 leaking	mark
8	leaking	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	past · passive		It	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	keep	past	it		tree rules
3	leak	gerund			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

It was broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		It					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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