Exam question 3 · Younger children, losing and practising

Select the response consistent with established practice when a child will miss a team practice.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: select, establish, miss · To what, where: response, team practice

This is exam question 3 of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 miss	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 miss	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 miss	aux
12	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Select	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 practice	det
14	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 practice	compound
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 miss	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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
3	miss	future	a child	a team practice	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer practice=Stimulus

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

He informs only a teammate afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 informs	nsubj
2	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 teammate	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teammate	det
5	teammate	teammate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informs	obj
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 informs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	present	He	a teammate				afterwards property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teammate=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He informs the coach in advance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 informs	nsubj
2	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coach	det
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informs	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 advance	case
6	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	present	He	the coach		advance			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient

Option 3

He informs nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 informs	nsubj
2	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 informs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	present	He		nobody				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He leaves the team

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 team	det
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	He	the team					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme

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