Exam question 3 · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

Select the response consistent with established practice in sledding.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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	4 consistent	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 sledding	case
9	sledding	sledding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					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

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

Sledding after dark on any hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sledding	sled	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 dark	case
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sledding	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sledding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sled	gerund				any hill	after dark		vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sledding down towards a frozen pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sledding	sled	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sledding	compound:prt
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 pond	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pond	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pond	amod
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sledding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sled down	gerund				a frozen pond			vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards pond=Trajectory
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sitting up, feet first, on a hill away from roads, trees and ponds

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Sitting	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feet	punct
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sitting	obl
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Sitting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hill	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
10	away	away	ADV	_	12 roads	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 roads	case
12	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trees	punct
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roads	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ponds	cc
16	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	gerund		feet		a hill		from roads and trees and ponds; first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location

Option 4

Lying head first towards a road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Lying	advmod
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund		head				towards a road; first property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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