Exam question 2 · The lunchroom and school trips

Which of the following constitutes the appropriate response to travel sickness on a school trip?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, constitute, travel · To what, where: appropriate response, sickness, school trip

This is exam question 2 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	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	to	to	PART	_	10 travel	mark
10	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 response	acl
11	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 trip	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trip	det
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trip	compound
15	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 constitutes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	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	travel	to-infinitive	sickness	a school trip	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sickness=Trajectory

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

Read a book to take one's mind off it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Read	ccomp
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mind	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 one	case
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	a book		tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	you not said here	one's mind	mind	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mind=Theme off it=Initial_Location
3	mind		one			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Tell the teacher early, sit near the front, look at the horizon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 horizon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horizon	det
14	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the teacher		early property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	sit	infinitive	you not said here		the front		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near front=Location
3	look	infinitive	you not said here			at the horizon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horizon=Theme

Option 3

Look at a phone screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 screen	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 screen	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 screen	compound
5	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					at a phone screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme

Option 4

Sit at the very back of the coach and say nothing until arrival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 back	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 back	advmod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 coach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coach	det
8	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 say	obj
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 arrival	case
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here			the back of the coach			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing			until arrival		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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