Exam question 1 · The lunchroom and school trips

Identify the reason for which many schools are nut-free.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many schools · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: reason

This is exam question 1 of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 free	obl
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 schools	amod
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 free	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 free	cop
9	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 free	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 free	punct
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reason	acl
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 reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	is	present	many schools					for the reason; free property	tree rules

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

Nuts are too costly for school meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 costly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 costly	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 costly	advmod
4	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 meals	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meals	compound
7	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 costly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nuts					for school meals; costly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny traces of nut may harm a child with severe allergy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 traces	amod
2	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harm	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 nut	case
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traces	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 harm	aux
6	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harm	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 allergy	case
10	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 allergy	amod
11	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	may	Tiny traces of nut	a child				with severe allergy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer

Option 3

Nuts make classrooms untidy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	classrooms	classroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	untidy	untidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nuts	classrooms				untidy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material classroom=Product

Option 4

Nuts are forbidden by all religions and by the law of every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forbidden	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 religions	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 religions	det
6	religions	religion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forbidden	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 law	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 law	det
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 religions	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 law	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive	all religions and the law of every country	Nuts					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=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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