Exam question 1 · Olympiad: tricky comprehension
It is given that Amy exceeds Ben in height, Ben exceeds Cal, and Cal exceeds Dee. Identify the individual of least height.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Amy, Ben, Cal, you · What happens: give, exceed, identify · To what, where: It, Ben, Cal, Dee, individual
This is exam question 1 of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that Amy exceeds Ben in height, Ben exceeds Cal, and Cal exceeds Dee.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 exceeds | mark |
| 5 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exceeds | nsubj |
| 6 | exceeds | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 7 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exceeds | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 height | case |
| 9 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exceeds | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exceeds | punct |
| 11 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exceeds | nsubj |
| 12 | exceeds | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 height | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exceeds | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exceeds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 exceeds | cc |
| 16 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exceeds | nsubj |
| 17 | exceeds | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 18 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exceeds | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exceed | present | Amy | Ben | in height | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot ben=Theme in height=Attribute | |||
| 3 | exceed | present | Ben | Cal | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exceed | present | Cal | Dee | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dee=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.
Sentence 2: Identify the individual of least height.
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 individual | det |
| 3 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 height | case |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 height | amod |
| 6 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 individual | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | 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 individual of least height | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ben
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Amy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | 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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