Exam question 3 · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

Select the verb that most precisely replaces the phrase "walked slowly and heavily".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, phrase · What happens: select, replace, walk · To what, where: verb, phrase

This is exam question 3 of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 verb	det
3	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 replaces	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 replaces	amod
6	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	7 replaces	advmod
7	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phrase	det
9	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaces	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 phrase	acl:relcl
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heavily	cc
14	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	12 slowly	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the verb		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Theme
2	replace	present	you not said here	the phrase	precisely property	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme phrase=Co-Theme
3	walk in a quote	past	the phrase not said here		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

trudged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trudged	trudge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trudge	participle							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

moved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

sprinted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sprinted	sprint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprint	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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