Exam question 3 · Teachers, visitors and the playground

Select the response consistent with established practice when another child takes one's ball.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: select, establish, take · To what, where: response, ball

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 takes	mark
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ball	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 one	case
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	take	present	another child	one's ball	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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

One takes his ball in return until he gives it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ball	nmod:poss
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 return	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 gives	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gives	nsubj
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gives	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	One	his ball		return			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Value in return=Location
2	give back	present	he	ball					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One asks politely for it, then tells a teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	2 asks	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asks	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tells	advmod
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	One					for it; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present			a teacher		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 3

One grabs it back at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 grabs	nsubj
2	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabs	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 grabs	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 grabs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab back	present	One	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

One pushes him over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushes	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 pushes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push over	present	One	him = he					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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