Exam question 3 · Running games and the playground

Select the response consistent with established practice concerning a metal slide in summer sun.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established practice · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, metal slide, summer sun.

This is exam question 3 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	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	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slide	det
10	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slide	compound
11	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sun.	case
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sun.	compound
14	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	concern	gerund	established practice not said here	a metal slide	summer sun.		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slide=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

It is used at once, since metal stays cool in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 used	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 stays	mark
8	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	conj
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stays	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		It					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stay	present	metal			the sun		cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

Option 2

It is cooled with a cold drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cooled	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cooled	aux:pass
3	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 drink	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drink	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drink	amod
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present · passive		It				with a cold drink	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with drink=Instrument

Option 3

It is sat upon without testing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	aux:pass
3	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 sat	obl
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 testing	case
6	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · passive		It				without testing	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is touched with the hand first, as it may burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	aux:pass
3	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 touched	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burn	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 burn	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burn	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 burn	aux
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 touched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present · passive		It				with the hand; first property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument
2	burn	may	hand						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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