Exam question 1 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Identify the principal reason for which lamps and nightlights are to be kept away from curtains and fabric.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, keep away · To what, where: principal reason, lamps, curtains

This is exam question 1 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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	13 kept	obl
7	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	nsubj:pass
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nightlights	cc
9	nightlights	nightlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lamps	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 kept	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 kept	aux:pass
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 curtains	case
16	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fabric	cc
18	fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 curtains	conj
19	.	.	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	keep away	present · passive	you not said here	lamps and nightlights		curtains and fabric		for the principal reason; away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from curtain=Eventuality

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

Light bulbs grow hot and may set fabric alight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bulbs	compound
2	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 set	aux
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
8	fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
9	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Light bulbs					hot property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	may	Light bulbs not said here	fabric				alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fabric=Result

Option 2

Light causes the curtains to shrink in size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curtains	det
4	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 causes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shrink	mark
6	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 size	case
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Light	the curtains					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curtain=Patient
2	shrink	to-infinitive	Light not said here			size			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Fabric reduces the brightness of the bulb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduces	nsubj
2	reduces	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brightness	det
4	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bulb	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bulb	det
7	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brightness	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present	Fabric	the brightness of the bulb					vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer brightness=Patient

Option 4

Curtains interfere with the lamp's electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 interfere	nsubj
2	interfere	interfere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 electricity	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lamp	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 electricity	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lamp	case
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interfere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interfere	present	Curtains					with the lamp's electricity	tree rules
2	electrify		the lamp						nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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