Exam question 2 · Running games and the playground

Which of the following constitutes the appropriate response when a game becomes too rough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: follow, be, become · To what, where: appropriate response

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 response	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 response	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 response	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 response	nsubj
5	constitutes	constitute	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 response	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 response	det
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 response	amod
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 becomes	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 becomes	nsubj
12	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 response	advcl
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 rough	advmod
14	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 becomes	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the appropriate response		tree rules
3	become	present	a game		rough property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

To say stop and to tell an adult if it continues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 continues	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 continues	nsubj
11	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	continue a condition, not said to happen	present	adult		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To become rougher in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 become	mark
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rougher	rough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 become	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 return	case
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rougher	obl

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

Option 3

To continue so as not to spoil the game for the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 continue	mark
2	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spoil	advcl
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 spoil	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 spoil	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 spoil	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spoil	mark
7	spoil	spoil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoil	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spoil	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not spoil	to-infinitive		the game				for the others	tree rules

Option 4

To leave without saying anything to anyone whatever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 leave	mark
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 anything	amod
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 leave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 leave	obl
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		anything				to anyone	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Theme whatever=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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