Exam question 4 · Olympiad: real languages and codes

Select the response that most accurately accounts for the Hawaiian rendering "Mele Kalikimaka".

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 accounts	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 accounts	amod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 most	advmod
7	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 response	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 rendering	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rendering	det
10	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rendering	amod
11	rendering	rendering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accounts	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Mele	punct
13	Mele	Mele	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rendering	appos
14	Kalikimaka	Kalikimaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mele	flat
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Mele	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response most accounts for the Hawaiian rendering					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=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

Translation of a different festival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 festival	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 festival	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 festival	amod
5	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Translation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate		a different festival						nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Borrowing from the Japanese language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 language	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 language	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Borrowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	gerund				the Japanese language			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from language=Source

Option 3

Deliberate mistranslation for comic effect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mistranslation	amod
2	mistranslation	mistranslation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 effect	case
4	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 effect	amod
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mistranslation	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Adaptation of the phrase to Hawaiian sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adaptation	adaptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 phrase	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phrase	det
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Adaptation	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sounds	case
6	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sounds	amod
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Adaptation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adapt		the phrase					to Hawaiian sounds	nom adaptation «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl

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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