Exam question 1 · Windows, balconies and furniture

Identify the principal reason for which tall furniture is fixed to the wall.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, fix · To what, where: principal reason, tall furniture

This is exam question 1 of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fixed	obl
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 furniture	amod
8	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fixed	aux:pass
10	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixed	obl
14	.	.	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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	fix	present · passive		tall furniture				for the principal reason; to the wall	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to wall=Co-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 right answer

It may otherwise tip over and crush a child

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	4 tip	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tip	aux
3	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	4 tip	advmod
4	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 tip	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crush	cc
7	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tip	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	may	It					otherwise, over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	crush	infinitive		a child					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

Option 2

It may otherwise be scratched by the floor

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	5 scratched	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scratched	aux
3	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	5 scratched	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scratched	aux:pass
5	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	may · passive	the floor	It				otherwise property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It is required solely for decoration

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 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 required	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 decoration	case
6	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		It				for decoration; solely property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

Option 4

It is otherwise liable to be stolen by intruders

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	4 liable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 liable	cop
3	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	4 liable	advmod
4	liable	liable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 stolen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 stolen	aux:pass
7	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 liable	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 intruders	case
9	intruders	intruder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					liable, otherwise property	tree rules
2	steal	to-infinitive · passive	intruders						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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