Exam question 4 · Prediction: what happens next

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the revision of predictions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, revise · To what, where: response, revision, predictions

This is exam question 4 of lesson 19 «Prediction: what happens next» 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	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 revision	det
11	revision	revision	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 predictions	case
13	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 revision	nmod
14	.	.	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 revision of predictions		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus revision=Experiencer
4	revise			predictions		nom revision «act 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 is a mark of good reading when new evidence emerges

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	4 mark	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mark	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 reading	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reading	amod
7	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	nmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 emerges	mark
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 evidence	amod
10	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 emerges	nsubj
11	emerges	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mark				of good reading	tree rules
2	emerge	present	new evidence						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is prohibited

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 prohibited	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prohibited	aux:pass
3	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive		It					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It demonstrates a failure of comprehension on the part of the reader in every instance

The tree, 15 words

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	2 demonstrates	nsubj
2	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 failure	det
4	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 comprehension	case
6	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 failure	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 part	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 part	det
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comprehension	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 reader	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reader	det
12	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 part	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 instance	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 instance	det
15	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	It	a failure of comprehension on the part of the reader		every instance			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot failure=Topic
2	fail		comprehension on the part of the reader						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

It is permitted only before reading

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 permitted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 reading	mark
6	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 permitted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present · passive		It					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	read	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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