Exam question 4 · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

Pursuant to the publication of a photograph online, ascertain which feature ought to be excluded so as to preserve safety.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ascertain, exclude, preserve, publish · To what, where: feature, safety, photograph

This is exam question 4 of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	10 ascertain	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 publication	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 publication	det
4	publication	publication	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pursuant	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 photograph	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 photograph	det
7	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 publication	nmod
8	online	online	ADV	_	1 Pursuant	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ascertain	punct
10	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 feature	det
12	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 excluded	nsubj:pass
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 excluded	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	16 excluded	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 excluded	aux:pass
16	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ascertain	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 preserve	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 preserve	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 preserve	mark
20	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 excluded	advcl
21	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 preserve	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	present		pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	exclude	ought · passive	which feature		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	preserve	to-infinitive	safety		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent safety=Beneficiary
4	publish		a photograph		nom publication «communication 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

The season of the year in which it was taken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 season	det
2	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 season	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 taken	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taken	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 year	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		it			in the year		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location

Option 2

The facial expression of the person shown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expression	det
2	facial	facial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 expression	amod
3	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expression	nmod
7	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	participle		the person not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The school, the street or the number of the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 school	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 street	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 street	det
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 school	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 number	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 school	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 number	nmod

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

Option 4

The colour of the clothing worn by the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 clothing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clothing	det
5	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 colour	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	participle		the colour of the clothing not said here				by the person	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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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