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Exam question 2 · Vocabulary in context

It is stated that the path was «treacherous, full of loose stones and steep drops». Select the response that most accurately characterises «treacherous».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: path, you, most · What happens: state, be, select, characteris · To what, where: It, response, treacherous · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» 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

Sentence 1: It is stated that the path was «treacherous, full of loose stones and steep drops».

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 stated	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stated	aux:pass
3	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 treacherous	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treacherous	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 treacherous	cop
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 treacherous	punct
9	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stated	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 full	punct
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 treacherous	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stones	case
13	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stones	amod
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drops	cc
16	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drops	amod
17	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stones	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 full	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		It					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	the path					treacherous property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Select the response that most accurately characterises «treacherous».

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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 characterises	nsubj
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 most	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 treacherous	punct
9	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 characterises	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 treacherous	punct
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					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	characteris	present	most	treacherous					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hazardous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hazardous	Hazardous	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Picturesque and pleasing to the eye of any traveller passing along it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Picturesque	Picturesque	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pleasing	cc
3	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picturesque	conj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleasing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 traveller	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 traveller	det
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nmod
10	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 traveller	acl
11	along	along	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	gerund						to the eye of any traveller	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	pass	gerund	any traveller not said here			traveller			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along it=Location

Option 3

Level and even

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 even	cc
3	even	even	ADV	_	1 Level	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Brief in length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brief	brief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brief	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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