Exam question 1 · Tests, exams and mistakes

Identify the most effective pattern of revision for long-term remembering.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, revision · What happens: identify, remember, pattern · To what, where: effective pattern, long term

This is exam question 1 of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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	5 pattern	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 effective	advmod
4	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pattern	amod
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 revision	case
7	revision	revision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	nmod
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 remembering	mark
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 term	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remembering	obl:unmarked
12	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the effective pattern of revision	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	remember	gerund	you not said here	long term	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	pattern		revision		nom pattern «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

Reading the book once quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Reading	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		the book				once, quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2

Revising for a whole day once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Revising	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund					day	once property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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

Revising a little on several days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Revising	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Revising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund		a little			day		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient

Option 4

Revising only on the night before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 night	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl
6	before	before	ADV	_	1 Revising	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund					night	before property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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