Exam question 2 · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the aim of chess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chess · What happens: follow, characteris, aim · To what, where: aim

This is exam question 2 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	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 aim	det
10	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 chess	case
12	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 aim	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the aim of chess	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	aim		chess			nom aim «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

To keep all one's pieces on the board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 board	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		all one's pieces		the board			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on board=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To checkmate the opponent's king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 checkmate	mark
2	checkmate	checkmate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 opponent	det
4	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 opponent	case
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 checkmate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	checkmate	to-infinitive		the opponent's king					tree rules

Option 3

To capture every one of the opponent's pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 capture	mark
2	capture	capture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 capture	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 pieces	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 opponent	det
7	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pieces	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 opponent	case
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	to-infinitive		every one of the opponent's pieces					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

To reach the far side of the board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reach	mark
2	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
4	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 side	amod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reach	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 board	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 board	det
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	to-infinitive		the far side of the board					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=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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