Exam question 3 · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

Select the response consistent with the established rules of snakes and ladders.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, snakes · What happens: select, establish, rule · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 rules	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rules	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rules	amod
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 snakes	case
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rules	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladders	cc
12	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snakes	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	rule		snakes and ladders			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

One moves only on even rolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 rolls	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rolls	case
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 rolls	advmod
6	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 moves	obj

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

Option 2

One counts the square presently occupied as the first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 square	det
4	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obj
5	presently	presently	ADV	_	6 occupied	advmod
6	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 square	amod
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 first	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 first	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 occupied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	One	the square					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent square=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One counts from the square after the one occupied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 square	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 square	det
5	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 one	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl
9	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	One			the square	after the one		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

One moves backwards whenever a six is thrown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 moves	advmod
4	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	8 thrown	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 six	det
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thrown	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 moves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	One					backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	present · passive		a six					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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