Exam question 1 · Word classes: the jobs words do

Identify the word class of «run» in the sentence «I went for a run».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, word class, I · What happens: identify, run, go · To what, where: word class, sentence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Word classes: the jobs words do» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 class	compound
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 run	mark
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 class	acl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sentence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sentence	det
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sentence	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 run	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 run	det
17	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the word class			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme
2	run in a quote	infinitive	the word class not said here		the sentence		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sentence=Trajectory
3	go in a quote	past	I	the sentence not said here		for a run	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sentence=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

Adverb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Verb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Preposition, since it indicates the direction of the movement undertaken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Preposition	preposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 indicates	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	5 indicates	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 indicates	nsubj
5	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Preposition	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 direction	det
7	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 indicates	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 movement	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 movement	det
10	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 direction	nmod
11	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 movement	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	Preposition	the direction of the movement					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot direction=Topic
2	undertake	participle		the movement not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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