Exam question 1 · Debating and discussion

Identify the term denoting the proposition under consideration in a formal debate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: identify, denote · To what, where: term, proposition, consideration

This is exam question 1 of lesson 49 «Debating and discussion» 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 proposition	det
6	proposition	proposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 consideration	case
8	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proposition	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 debate	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 debate	det
11	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 debate	amod
12	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obl
13	.	.	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 term					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	gerund	the term not said here	the proposition		consideration		in a formal debate	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot proposition=Theme in debate=Attribute

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 rebuttal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rebuttal	det
2	rebuttal	rebuttal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The summary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 summary	det
2	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The verdict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 verdict	det
2	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The motion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 motion	det
2	motion	motion	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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