Exam question 3 · Music practice and ball games

Select the response consistent with established practice concerning the mouthpieces of instruments.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established practice · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, mouthpieces

This is exam question 3 of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» 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	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouthpieces	det
10	mouthpieces	mouthpiece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 concerning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 instruments	case
12	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mouthpieces	nmod
13	.	.	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	concern	gerund	established practice not said here	the mouthpieces of instruments	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouthpiece=Experiencer

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

They require no cleaning at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cleaning	det
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 require	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	They	no cleaning		all			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cleaning=Precondition

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They are cleaned only once a year, at the end of the summer term

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cleaned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaned	aux:pass
3	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 cleaned	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaned	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 term	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 term	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 term	compound
15	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · passive		They			at the end of the summer term	once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

They may be shared freely between friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shared	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shared	aux:pass
4	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	freely	freely	ADV	_	4 shared	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 friends	case
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	may · passive		They				between friends; freely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are cleaned and not shared without cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cleaned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaned	aux:pass
3	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shared	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 shared	advmod
6	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cleaned	conj
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 cleaning	case
8	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · passive		They					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	not share	participle						without cleaning	tree rules

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