Exam question 2 · Tests, exams and mistakes

Which of the following constitutes the appropriate response upon becoming stuck on a test question?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: appropriate response · What happens: follow, constitute, become, stick · To what, where: appropriate response, test question

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 constitutes	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 constitutes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 constitutes	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 constitutes	nsubj
5	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 response	det
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 response	amod
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 constitutes	obj
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 becoming	mark
10	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 response	acl
11	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 becoming	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 question	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 question	det
14	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 question	compound
15	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuck	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 constitutes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	constitute	present		the appropriate response		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme response=Pivot
3	become	gerund	the appropriate response not said here			tree rules
4	stick	participle	the appropriate response not said here		a test question	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on question=Destination

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 copy the answer of a neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 copy	mark
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copy	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 neighbour	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	to-infinitive		the answer of a neighbour					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	answer			a neighbour					nom answer «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To remain on it until the time expires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remain	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 expires	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expires	nsubj
8	expires	expire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remain	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive				it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
2	expire	present	the time						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

To move on and return to it at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 move	mark
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 move	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 return	cc
5	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 move	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 return	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move on	to-infinitive							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	return	infinitive			it		at the end		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result

Option 4

To leave the remaining questions blank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 leave	mark
2	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 blank	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 questions	det
4	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questions	amod
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obj
6	blank	blank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		the remaining questions					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	blank	present							tree rules

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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