Exam question 1 · Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons

Identify the appropriate response to a long or strong earthquake felt at the coast.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, feel · To what, where: appropriate response, coast

This is exam question 1 of lesson 236 «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» 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	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 earthquake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 earthquake	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 earthquake	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 strong	cc
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 long	conj
10	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obl
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 coast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coast	det
14	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	feel	past				the coast		to a long earthquake	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to earthquake=Experiencer

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

To swim out beyond the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 swim	mark
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 swim	compound:prt
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 waves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	to-infinitive				the waves			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond wave=Trajectory

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

To proceed at once to high ground or inland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 proceed	mark
2	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 proceed	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proceed	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 inland	cc
9	inland	inland	ADV	_	7 ground	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	to-infinitive						to high ground	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To remain on the shore until warned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remain	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 warned	mark
7	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remain	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive				the shore			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
2	warn speech: warn	participle							vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To go down to the beach in order to observe the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 observe	mark
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	fixed
9	to	to	PART	_	10 observe	mark
10	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 observe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	to-infinitive						to the beach; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	observe	to-infinitive		the sea					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sea=Topic

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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