Exam question 1 · Safe at lakes and beaches

Identify the area of a beach patrolled by lifeguards in which one is to swim.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: identify, patrol, be · To what, where: area, beach, lifeguards

This is exam question 1 of lesson 232 «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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	3 area	det
3	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 area	nmod
7	patrolled	patrol	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 beach	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 lifeguards	case
9	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 patrolled	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 swim	obl
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swim	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 swim	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 swim	mark
15	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lifeguards	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the area of a beach			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent area=Theme
2	patrol	participle		a beach not said here		by lifeguards	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lifeguard=Location
3	is	present	one		lifeguards	swim property	tree rules

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

Wherever the waves are largest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	5 largest	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waves	det
3	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 largest	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 largest	cop
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the waves					large, wherever property	tree rules

Option 2

Near the rocks at the far end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	3 rocks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 end	amod
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rocks	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Between the red and yellow flags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Between	between	ADP	_	6 flags	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flags	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flags	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yellow	cc
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj
6	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Outside the flags, where it is quieter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 flags	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flags	det
3	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quieter	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 quieter	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 quieter	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 quieter	cop
8	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 flags	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					quiet property	tree rules

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