Exam question 4 · Word classes: the jobs words do

Ascertain which of the following words is an adjective notwithstanding its terminal «-ly».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, adjective · What happens: ascertain, follow, be, notwithstand · To what, where: words, terminal

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 adjective	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 adjective	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adjective	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 adjective	csubj
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 following	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 adjective	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adjective	det
9	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	ccomp
10	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 adjective	acl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 terminal	nmod:poss
12	terminal	terminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 notwithstanding	obj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 ly	punct
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ly	punct
15	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 notwithstanding	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 ly	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund		words		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	is	present			of the adjective	tree rules
4	notwithstand	gerund	the adjective not said here	adjective's terminal	ly obl	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.

The options

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

lovely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happily	happily	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	root	root

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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