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Exam question 4 · Balance and falling well

It is given that a person desires to reach an elevated shelf at home. Determine the most appropriate means of doing so.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person, you, appropriate · What happens: give, desire, reach, elevate, determine, mean · To what, where: It, elevated shelf, home

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a person desires to reach an elevated shelf at home.

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	_	7 desires	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 desires	nsubj
7	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 desires	xcomp
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
11	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shelf	amod
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shelf	nmod
15	.	.	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	desire	present	a person						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	a person not said here	a elevated shelf		home			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme at home=Asset
4	elevate	participle							vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Determine the most appropriate means of doing so.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 appropriate	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 doing	mark
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 doing	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the appropriate						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	gerund							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The employment of a proper and stable step stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employment	det
2	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 stool	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stool	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stool	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stable	cc
7	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proper	conj
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stool	compound
9	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 employment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ			a proper step stool					nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The standing upon a revolving office chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 standing	det
2	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 chair	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chair	det
5	revolving	revolve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 chair	amod
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chair	compound
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revolve	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The standing upon an upturned bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 standing	det
2	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 bucket	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
5	upturned	upturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bucket	amod
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	upturn	participle							tree rules

Option 4

The balancing upon the arm of a sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balancing	det
2	balancing	balancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arm	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 balancing	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sofa	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sofa	det
8	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arm	nmod

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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