Exam question 1 · Classroom rules and homework

Identify the purpose of filters upon school computers and tablets.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, filters · What happens: identify, purpose · To what, where: purpose

This is exam question 1 of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 filters	case
5	filters	filter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 purpose	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 computers	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 computers	compound
8	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filters	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tablets	cc
10	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 computers	conj
11	.	.	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 purpose of filters upon school computers and tablets					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	purpose		filters upon school computers and tablets						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

To prevent homework being saved upon the school system

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saved	aux:pass
5	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 prevent	xcomp
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 system	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 system	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 system	compound
9	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		homework				upon the school system	tree rules
2	save	gerund · passive							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»

Option 2

To make the devices slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 devices	det
4	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the devices				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset device=Product

Option 3

To stop teachers using the internet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 internet	det
6	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		teachers					tree rules
2	use	gerund		the internet					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=Patient

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

To keep children safe online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	online	online	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		children				online, safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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