Exam question 2 · Building and making things safely

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a splinter left in the skin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, leave · To what, where: splinter, skin

This is exam question 2 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	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 splinter	det
10	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 splinter	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a splinter	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	leave	participle	a splinter not said here	in the skin result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in skin=Result

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

It dissolves harmlessly within a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dissolves	nsubj
2	dissolves	dissolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	harmlessly	harmlessly	ADV	_	2 dissolves	advmod
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dissolves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	present	It				day	harmlessly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It must be cut out with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut out	must · passive		It				with a knife	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is best left in the skin for a week or so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 left	amod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 so	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	4 left	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		It		the skin	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in skin=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It may become infected and is removed by an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 removed	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 removed	aux:pass
7	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 infected	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 adult	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 removed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	may	It					infected property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	remove	present · passive	a adult						vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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