Exam question 1 · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

Identify the reason for which the rules of a new board game are read together before play.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, new board game · What happens: identify, read, rule · To what, where: reason, rules

This is exam question 1 of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 read	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rules	det
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 read	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 game	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 game	amod
11	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 game	compound
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rules	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux:pass
14	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 read	advmod
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 play	case
17	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	read	present · passive		the rules of a new board game	before play	for the reason; together property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	rule		a new board game				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

All players need the same rules for the game to be fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rules	amod
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 game	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 fair	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fair	cop
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	all players	the same rules				for the game	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the same rules not said here					fair property	tree rules

Option 2

The oldest player alone requires knowledge of the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 player	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 player	amod
3	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 player	advmod
5	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rules	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rules	det
9	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowledge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	the oldest player	knowledge of the rules					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knowledge=Precondition

Option 3

The rules change once read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rules	det
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the rules						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	participle	the rules not said here					once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Reading the rules makes the game considerably shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rules	det
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reading	obj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	4 makes	advmod
8	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		the rules					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic
2	make	present	Reading	the game				considerably, short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product

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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