Exam question 4 · Safe toys for you and little ones

Ascertain the place where a remote-control car may properly be driven.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, drive · To what, where: place, control car

This is exam question 4 of lesson 241 «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 driven	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 car	det
6	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 control	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 remote	punct
8	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 car	compound
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 driven	nsubj:pass
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 driven	aux
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	13 driven	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 driven	aux:pass
13	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 place	acl:relcl
14	.	.	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 place					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
2	drive	may · passive		a control car				properly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

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

On the pavement beside a busy road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 pavement	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pavement	det
3	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 road	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 road	det
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 road	amod
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pavement	nmod

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

Option 2

In the street when traffic is light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 street	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 light	advmod
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	compound
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 light	cop
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 street	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		traffic light					tree rules

Option 3

In a car park among moving cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 park	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 park	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 park	compound
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 cars	case
6	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cars	amod
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 park	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In a yard, park or quiet path, never in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 yard	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 yard	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 park	punct
5	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 path	cc
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 path	amod
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 street	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 street	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 street	det
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	conj

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

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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