Exam question 3 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

Select the response consistent with established practice for the carrying of scissors.

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

This is exam question 3 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	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	1 Select	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 carrying	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carrying	det
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 scissors	case
12	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carrying	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	with established practice	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	carry	gerund	established practice not said here		of scissors	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of scissors=Initial_Location

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

Scissors are thrown to the next person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		Scissors	the next person				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to person=Destination

Option 2

Scissors are carried open and points up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carried	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 points	cc
6	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 points	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · passive		Scissors				open property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	point up	present							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Child safety scissors are carried points down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 safety	compound
2	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scissors	compound
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 points	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 points	cop
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 points	amod
6	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 points	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	safety scissors	carried points				down property	tree rules

Option 4

Scissors are carried in the mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · passive		Scissors		the mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in mouth=Location

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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