Exam question 1 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

Identify the person who may use super glue.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, use · To what, where: person, super glue

This is exam question 1 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» 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	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 use	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 person	acl:relcl
7	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glue	amod
8	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	.	.	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 person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	use	may	the person	super glue					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glue=Patient

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 right answer

An adult only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 adult	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Any child wearing gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 child	acl
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund	any child not said here	gloves					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

Option 3

Any child over six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 child	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Any child with permission from a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 permission	case
4	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 friend	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 permission	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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