Exam question 3 · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Select the response consistent with established practice in respect of a working guide dog.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, work, respect · To what, where: response, working guide dog

This is exam question 3 of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 dog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
12	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 dog	amod
13	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dog	compound
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	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	work	gerund			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	respect			a working guide dog	nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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

It may be fed treats freely

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	4 fed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
6	freely	freely	ADV	_	4 fed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	may · passive		It				freely property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient treat=Theme

Option 2

It may be stroked if gentle

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	4 stroked	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stroked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stroked	aux:pass
4	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gentle	mark
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stroked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	may · passive		It				gentle property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It is to be called by its name

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	5 called	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 called	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	aux:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 name	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive	its name	It					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	name		its = it						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is never distracted

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	4 distracted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 distracted	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 distracted	advmod
4	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not distract	present · passive		It					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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