Exam question 4 · Music practice and ball games

Ascertain the reason for which instruments are not left in a hot car.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, not leave · To what, where: reason, instruments, hot car

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 left	obl
6	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 left	advmod
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 car	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 car	amod
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	not leave	present · passive		instruments		a hot car		for the reason	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in car=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 · ← Mova's choice

They become louder when warm

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 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	They					loud, warm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They lose their colour in sunlight

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 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 colour	nmod:poss
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 sunlight	case
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They	their colour		sunlight			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality

Option 3

They may be stolen in the heat

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 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stolen	aux:pass
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 heat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heat	det
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	may · passive		They		the heat			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They may crack in the heat

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 crack	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	may	They			the heat			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location

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