Exam question 1 · Building and making things safely

Identify the appropriate response when a project does not succeed at the first attempt.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, project · What happens: identify, not succeed · To what, where: appropriate response, first attempt

This is exam question 1 of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 succeed	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 project	det
7	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 succeed	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 succeed	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 succeed	advmod
10	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 attempt	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 attempt	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 attempt	amod
14	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 succeed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	not succeed	present · do-support	a project			the first attempt			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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

The project is abandoned at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 project	det
2	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abandoned	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 abandoned	aux:pass
4	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 abandoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon	present · passive		the project					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source

Option 2

Everything is changed simultaneously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 changed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	aux:pass
3	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	3 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · passive		Everything				simultaneously property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The instructions are discarded entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 instructions	det
2	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 discarded	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 discarded	aux:pass
4	discarded	discard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	4 discarded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discard	present · passive		the instructions				entirely property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

One thing is altered, tested and tried again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thing	nummod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 altered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 altered	aux:pass
4	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tested	punct
6	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 altered	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
8	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 altered	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 tried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	alter	present · passive	One thing		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	test	participle			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	try	participle		again	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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