Exam question 1 · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

Identify the direction in which the ball may be passed in rugby.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, pass · To what, where: direction, ball

This is exam question 1 of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 passed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj:pass
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 passed	aux:pass
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 direction	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 rugby	case
12	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
13	.	.	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 direction					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	pass	may · passive		the ball		the direction		in rugby	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in which=Destination

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

Upwards only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upwards	upwards	ADV	_	2 only	advmod
2	only	only	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Forwards only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Forwards	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Backwards or sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Backwards	backwards	ADV	_	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 sideways	cc
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	1 Backwards	conj

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

Option 4

In any direction at will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 direction	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 will	case
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 direction	acl:relcl

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

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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