Exam question 2 · Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the speed of wildfires?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: speed

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 speed	det
10	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wildfires	case
12	wildfires	wildfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 speed	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the speed of wildfires				of the following statements; accurately 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

They move only at a steady walking pace

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 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 move	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 pace	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pace	det
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pace	amod
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pace	compound
8	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They					at a steady walking pace	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory

Option 2

They move only during the night

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 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They				night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They cannot cross roads or rivers

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	4 cross	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 rivers	cc
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cross	can	They	roads or rivers					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They can move faster than a person can run

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 move	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 run	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 faster	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	can	They					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	run	can	a person						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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