Exam question 4 · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone
Ascertain which of the following foods are customarily eaten with the fingers.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, follow, eat
This is exam question 4 of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 eaten | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 foods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foods | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 foods | amod |
| 6 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eaten | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux:pass |
| 8 | customarily | customarily | ADV | _ | 9 eaten | advmod |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ascertain | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fingers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fingers | det |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eaten | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat | present · passive | you not said here | of the following foods; with the fingers; customarily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: which=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
Porridge, custard, stew and jelly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 custard | punct |
| 3 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Porridge | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stew | punct |
| 5 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Porridge | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jelly | cc |
| 7 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Porridge | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sandwiches | punct |
| 3 | sandwiches | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pizza | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chips | punct |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pizza | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drumsticks | cc |
| 7 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drumsticks | compound |
| 8 | drumsticks | drumstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chips | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Roast beef, rice, peas and gravy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roast | roast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beef | amod |
| 2 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rice | punct |
| 4 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beef | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 peas | punct |
| 6 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beef | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gravy | cc |
| 8 | gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Soup, spaghetti, salad and mashed potato
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mashed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spaghetti | punct |
| 3 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soup | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 salad | punct |
| 5 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soup | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 salad | cc |
| 7 | mashed | mash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mashed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mash | past | Soup and spaghetti and salad | potato | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument potato=Patient |
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