Exam question 2 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

Select the response most consistent with recommended practice in respect of the employment of cue cards.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, recommend, respect, employ · To what, where: response, employment, cue cards

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 practice	case
7	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 practice	amod
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consistent	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practice	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 employment	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 employment	det
13	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cards	case
15	cue	cue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cards	compound
16	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 employment	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	recommend	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	respect			the employment of cue cards	nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	employ			cue cards	nom employment «state 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

They should bear the full text verbatim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bear	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bear	aux
3	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 verbatim	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 verbatim	amod
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verbatim	compound
7	verbatim	verbatim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	should	They	the full text verbatim					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verbatim=Patient

Option 2

They should be concealed and never consulted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 concealed	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 concealed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 concealed	aux:pass
4	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 consulted	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 consulted	advmod
7	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 concealed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	should · passive		They					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not consult	participle							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They should be read with the head lowered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	aux:pass
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 lowered	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lowered	nsubj
8	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	should · passive		They					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	lower	past	the head						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They should bear key words only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bear	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bear	aux
3	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bear	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 bear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	should	They	key words					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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