Exam question 1 · Honest work at school

Identify the principal purpose for which tests are administered to pupils in the course of their schooling.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tests · What happens: identify, administer, school · To what, where: principal purpose, tests, pupils, course

This is exam question 1 of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 administered	obl
7	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 administered	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 administered	aux:pass
9	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purpose	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 pupils	case
11	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 administered	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 course	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 course	det
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 administered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 schooling	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 schooling	nmod:poss
17	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 course	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	administer	present · passive		tests	pupils	the course of tests's schooling	for the principal purpose	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to pupil=Recipient
3	school		tests = test					nom schooling «act transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To rank pupils permanently by their intelligence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rank	mark
2	rank	rank	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rank	obj
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	2 rank	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 intelligence	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 intelligence	nmod:poss
7	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rank	to-infinitive		pupils				by pupils's intelligence; permanently property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme

Option 2

To occupy pupils during the hours of the school day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 occupy	mark
2	occupy	occupy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occupy	obj
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hours	det
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occupy	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy	to-infinitive		pupils			hour		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer

Option 3

To identify pupils who are idle and to punish them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 identify	mark
2	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 idle	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idle	cop
6	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pupils	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 punish	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 punish	mark
9	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 identify	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	to-infinitive		pupils		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme
2	is	present	pupils		idle property	tree rules
3	punish	to-infinitive		pupils = pupil		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To ascertain what a pupil knows so that assistance may be given

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ascertain	mark
2	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 knows	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ascertain	ccomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 given	mark
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 assistance	det
9	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	aux:pass
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	to-infinitive			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	a pupil		tree rules
3	give	may · passive		that assistance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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