Exam question 3 · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes
Select the response consistent with established practice before using sports equipment.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, use · To what, where: response, sports equipment
This is exam question 3 of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 using | mark |
| 9 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Select | advcl |
| 10 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 equipment | compound |
| 11 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 using | obj |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | ||||||
| 3 | use | gerund | you not said here | sports equipment | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=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
It is used without inspection if new
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 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 inspection | case |
| 5 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 new | mark |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 used | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | It | without inspection | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is inspected for cracks, loose parts and broken straps
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 inspected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inspected | aux:pass |
| 3 | inspected | inspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cracks | case |
| 5 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 inspected | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parts | punct |
| 7 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parts | amod |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cracks | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 straps | cc |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 straps | amod |
| 11 | straps | strap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cracks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspect | present · passive | It | for cracks and loose parts and broken straps | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for crack=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
It is inspected only once a year, at the start of the season
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 inspected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inspected | aux:pass |
| 3 | inspected | inspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 once | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 inspected | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 once | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 start | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 start | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 start | det |
| 11 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inspected | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 season | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 season | det |
| 14 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 start | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspect | present · passive | It | once property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | the season | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
It is used even if a strap is broken
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 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 broken | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 broken | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 strap | det |
| 7 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 used | advcl |
| # | 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 | break a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a strap | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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