Exam question 1 · Teachers, visitors and the playground

Identify the requirement placed upon visitors to a school.

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 requirement	det
3	requirement	requirement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 requirement	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 placed	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 school	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
10	.	.	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 requirement					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent requirement=Theme
2	place	participle		the requirement not said here				upon visitors; to a school	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon visitor=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

They may enter by any door they choose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enter	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 enter	aux
3	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enter	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 choose	nsubj
8	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 door	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	may	They					by any door	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	present	they	any door not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 2

They must bring a child with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	must	They		a child			with them = they	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination

Option 3

They report to the playground first, before any office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 report	nsubj
2	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 playground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 playground	det
5	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 report	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 report	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 office	punct
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 office	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 office	det
10	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 report	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present	They				before any office	to the playground; first property	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to playground=Co-Agent

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

They sign in at the office and wear a badge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sign	nsubj
2	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 sign	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 office	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 office	det
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sign	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wear	cc
8	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sign	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 badge	det
10	badge	badge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign in	present	They			the office			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at office=Destination
2	wear	infinitive	They not said here	a badge					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent badge=Source

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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