Exam question 1 · Questions, group work and the adults at school

Identify the appropriate response where a group disagrees upon a plan.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, group · What happens: identify, disagree · To what, where: appropriate response

This is exam question 1 of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 disagrees	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disagrees	nsubj
8	disagrees	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 response	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 plan	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plan	det
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disagrees	obl
12	.	.	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 appropriate response					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	disagree	present	a group					upon a plan	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each idea is heard, then a vote or a mixture is tried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux:pass
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tried	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vote	det
8	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	nsubj:pass
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 mixture	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mixture	det
11	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vote	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tried	aux:pass
13	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · passive		each idea					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	try	present · passive		a vote or a mixture			then		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

The group ceases to work until the teacher intervenes on its behalf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceases	nsubj
3	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ceases	xcomp
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 intervenes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 intervenes	nsubj
9	intervenes	intervene	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 behalf	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 behalf	nmod:poss
12	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 intervenes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cease	present	the group		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	to-infinitive	the group not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	intervene	present	the teacher	teacher's behalf	tree rules

Option 3

The member with most friends decides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 member	det
2	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decides	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 member	nmod
6	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the member with most friends						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The loudest member decides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 member	det
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 member	amod
3	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decides	nsubj
4	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the loudest member						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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