Exam question 4 · Queues, taking turns and interrupting
Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one, persons · What happens: ascertain, allow, go · To what, where: persons, queue
This is exam question 4 of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 persons | det |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 allow | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 allow | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 allow | aux |
| 7 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 persons | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 queue | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 queue | det |
| 13 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the persons | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | ||||
| 2 | allow | might | one | the persons | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer whom=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the persons not said here | a queue | ahead property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in queue=Location |
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
Only persons who push forward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 persons | advmod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 push | nsubj |
| 4 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 persons | acl:relcl |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 push | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push forward | present | persons | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Only one's own friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 friends | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 one | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only those persons who request it loudly and repeatedly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 persons | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 persons | det |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 request | nsubj |
| 5 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 persons | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 request | obj |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 request | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeatedly | cc |
| 9 | repeatedly | repeatedly | ADV | _ | 7 loudly | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | present | that persons | it | loudly property | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Older or disabled persons, or a parent with a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 persons | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 disabled | cc |
| 3 | disabled | disabled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Older | conj |
| 4 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parent | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 parent | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parent | det |
| 8 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persons | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parent | 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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