Exam question 3 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

Pursuant to the five-finger test, a pupil who encounters five unfamiliar or unreadable words upon a single page should conclude that the book is:

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil, book · What happens: encounter, conclude, be · To what, where: five unfamiliar words

This is exam question 3 of lesson 16 «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the English 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	23 conclude	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	7 test	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 test	det
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 finger	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 five	punct
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 test	compound
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 conclude	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 test	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 conclude	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 encounters	nsubj
12	encounters	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pupil	acl:relcl
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 words	nummod
14	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 unreadable	cc
16	unreadable	unreadable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 unfamiliar	conj
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 encounters	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 page	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 page	det
20	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 page	amod
21	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 encounters	obl
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 conclude	aux
23	conclude	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 is	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 book	det
26	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 conclude	advcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 conclude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	encounter	present	a pupil	five unfamiliar words	upon a single page	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	conclude	should	a pupil		to the finger test; pursuant property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	be	present	the book			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Ideally suited to independent reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ideally	ideally	ADV	_	2 suited	advmod
2	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 reading	case
4	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reading	amod
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suit	participle						to independent reading; ideally property	tree rules

Option 2

Excessively easy and therefore to be discarded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessively	excessively	ADV	_	2 easy	advmod
2	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 discarded	cc
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 discarded	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 discarded	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 discarded	aux:pass
7	discarded	discard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 easy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discard	to-infinitive · passive						therefore property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

To be avoided permanently thereafter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 avoided	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 avoided	aux:pass
3	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	3 avoided	advmod
5	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	3 avoided	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive · passive						permanently, thereafter property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Presently too difficult to be read independently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 difficult	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 difficult	advmod
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 read	aux:pass
6	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 difficult	advcl
7	independently	independently	ADV	_	6 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive · passive						independently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»

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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