Exam question 4 · Safe and kind in gardens and forests

Ascertain the reason for which one does not shelter beneath dead trees or loose branches.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: ascertain, not shelter · To what, where: reason, dead trees

This is exam question 4 of lesson 229 «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 shelter	mark
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shelter	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shelter	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 shelter	advmod
9	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reason	acl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shelter	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 branches	cc
14	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 branches	amod
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trees	conj
16	.	.	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 reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	not shelter	present · do-support	which one			dead trees or loose branches			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=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

They provide no shade whatever on a sunny day

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	2 provide	nsubj
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shade	det
4	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obj
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 shade	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	present	They	no shade			day		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition shade=Theme

Option 2

They contain more insects than living trees do

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	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 insects	amod
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 insects	nmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 contain	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	contain	present	They	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	live	gerund		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	more insects than living trees	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They may fall without warning, particularly in wind

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 fall	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 warning	case
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 particularly	punct
7	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 wind	case
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	may	They			wind		without warning; particularly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wind=Location

Option 4

They are owned by the forest rangers and may not be used

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 owned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 owned	aux:pass
3	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 rangers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rangers	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rangers	compound
7	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 used	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 owned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	present · passive	the forest rangers	They					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	not use	may · passive	the forest rangers not said here						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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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