Exam question 1 · Building tension and suspense

Identify the technique whereby a chapter is concluded at a moment of unresolved danger.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, conclude · To what, where: technique, chapter

This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Building tension and suspense» 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	3 technique	det
3	technique	technique	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	8 concluded	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chapter	det
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concluded	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 concluded	aux:pass
8	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concluded	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 danger	case
13	unresolved	unresolved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 danger	amod
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moment	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the technique					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent technique=Theme
2	conclude	present · passive		a chapter			moment	whereby property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

A cliffhanger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cliffhanger	det
2	cliffhanger	cliffhanger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A topic sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sentence	det
2	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sentence	compound
3	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A resolution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 resolution	det
2	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A simile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 simile	det
2	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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