Exam question 1 · Relative clauses

Identify the relative pronoun appropriate to the completion of «The girl ___ bicycle was stolen reported the theft».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, report, complete · To what, where: relative pronoun, theft, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» 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 pronoun	det
3	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pronoun	amod
4	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pronoun	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 completion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 completion	det
8	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 girl	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 girl	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 completion	nmod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 reported	punct
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 stolen	punct
16	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stolen	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stolen	aux:pass
18	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 reported	aux:pass
19	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 theft	det
21	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reported	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 reported	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the relative pronoun	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pronoun=Theme clause=Attribute
2	report in a quote	participle · passive		the theft	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: theft=Patient
3	complete			the girl	nom completion «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

which

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

whose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	root	root

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

Option 3

who's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules

Option 4

what

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root

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

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