Exam question 1 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Identify the practice whereby a speaker adjusts vocabulary and formality to suit a particular audience.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: identify, adjust, suit · To what, where: practice, vocabulary, particular audience

This is exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 practice	det
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	7 adjusts	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speaker	det
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adjusts	nsubj
7	adjusts	adjust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adjusts	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 formality	cc
10	formality	formality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vocabulary	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 suit	mark
12	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 adjusts	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 audience	det
14	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 audience	amod
15	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 suit	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the practice		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
2	adjust	present	a speaker	vocabulary and formality	whereby property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vocabulary=Patient
3	suit	to-infinitive	a speaker not said here	a particular audience		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

Rebuttal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rebuttal	rebuttal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Alliteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Projection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Register	register	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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