Exam question 4 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning audiobooks.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 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	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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 audiobooks	amod
10	audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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

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

They are permitted only for pupils who are unable to read

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 permitted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 permitted	aux:pass
3	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 permitted	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 pupils	case
6	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 permitted	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 unable	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unable	cop
9	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pupils	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 read	mark
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unable	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	permit	present · passive		They	for pupils	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	pupils		unable property	tree rules
3	read	to-infinitive	pupils not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They develop vocabulary and comprehension but do not practise the decoding of print

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	2 develop	nsubj
2	develop	develop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 develop	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 comprehension	cc
5	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vocabulary	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 practise	cc
7	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 practise	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 practise	advmod
9	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 develop	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 decoding	det
11	decoding	decoding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 practise	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 print	case
13	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decoding	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	develop	present	They	vocabulary and comprehension	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vocabulary=Product
2	not practise	infinitive · do-support	They not said here	the decoding of print	tree rules
3	decode			print	nom decoding «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

They constitute no form of engagement with books whatsoever

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	2 constitute	nsubj
2	constitute	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 form	det
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitute	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 engagement	case
6	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 books	case
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 constitute	obl
9	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 constitute	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	They	no form of engagement				with books; whatsoever property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Pivot
2	form			engagement					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

They are identical in every respect to the reading of printed text and may wholly replace it

The tree, 17 words

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 identical	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 identical	cop
3	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 respect	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 respect	det
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 identical	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 reading	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reading	det
9	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respect	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 text	case
11	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 text	amod
12	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reading	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 replace	cc
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 replace	aux
15	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	16 replace	advmod
16	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 identical	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		every respect to the reading of printed text	identical property	tree rules
2	print	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	replace	may	They not said here	text		wholly property	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	read			printed text			nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=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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