Exam question 3 · Sharing, sleep and safe food

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning grapes given to small children.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, give · To what, where: response, established facts, small children

This is exam question 3 of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grapes	amod
10	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 given	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	give	participle		the established facts and concerning grapes not said here	small children		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient

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

They are given whole, being soft enough to be swallowed safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 soft	cop
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	conj
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 soft	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 swallowed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 swallowed	aux:pass
11	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 soft	advcl
12	safely	safely	ADV	_	11 swallowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	They	whole property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	gerund		enough, soft property	tree rules
3	swallow	to-infinitive · passive		safely property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are cut lengthways, lest they block the airway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	lengthways	lengthways	ADV	_	3 cut	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 block	punct
6	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 block	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 block	nsubj
8	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 airway	det
10	airway	airway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present · passive		They				lengthways property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	block	present	they	the airway					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer airway=Theme

Option 3

They are frozen in order to be safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux:pass
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 safer	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 in	fixed
6	to	to	PART	_	8 safer	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 safer	cop
8	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		They					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

Option 4

They are forbidden to all children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbidden	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forbidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive		They				to all children	vn forbid-64.4-1 «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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