Exam question 1 · Running games and the playground

Identify the most common cause of playground injury.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: common cause, playground injury

This is exam question 1 of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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	5 cause	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 common	advmod
4	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 injury	case
7	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 injury	compound
8	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
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 common cause of playground injury					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	cause			playground injury					nom cause «event transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Sitting on benches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 benches	case
3	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				benches			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Falls from monkey bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 bars	case
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bars	compound
4	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Falls	nmod

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

Option 3

Running on grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 grass	case
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				grass			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory

Option 4

Drinking from fountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 fountains	case
3	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund				fountains			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fountain=Source

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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