Exam question 1 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

Identify the pair of words constituting a rhyme.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, words · What happens: identify, constitute · To what, where: pair, rhyme

This is exam question 1 of lesson 45 «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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 pair	det
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pair	nmod
6	constituting	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 words	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rhyme	det
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 constituting	obj
9	.	.	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 pair of words					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	constitute	gerund	words not said here	a rhyme					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rhyme=Pivot

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

fall and wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wall	cc
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

fall and autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 autumn	cc
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

fall and fallen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fallen	cc
3	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	participle	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

fall and fill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fill	cc
3	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill	infinitive	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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