Exam question 3 · Building and making things safely

Select the response consistent with established practice regarding power tools.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, regard · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	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	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tools	case
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tools	compound
10	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 practice	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	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	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Children may use them alone once shown how

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 shown	advmod
7	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 use	advcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 shown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	may	Children	them = they				alone property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	show	participle	Children not said here					once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Children may use them alone provided that they wear gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 provided	nsubj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 provided	advmod
6	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 use	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wear	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wear	nsubj
9	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	advcl
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	may	Children			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	provide	past	Children = child		alone property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
3	wear	present	Children = child	gloves		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

Option 3

Children may use them in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	may	Children	them = they		the garden			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Children use them only with an adult present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	2 use	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 present	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 present	det
7	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 present	amod
8	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Children	them = they				with a adult present	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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