Exam question 3 · The lunchroom and school trips

Select the response consistent with established practice upon spilling a drink in the lunchroom.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established practice · What happens: select, establish, spill · To what, where: response, drink, lunchroom

This is exam question 3 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	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	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 spilling	mark
9	spilling	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 drink	det
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spilling	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 lunchroom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lunchroom	det
14	lunchroom	lunchroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spilling	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	spill	gerund	established practice not said here	a drink	the lunchroom	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drink=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 covers it with a napkin and leaves it for the cleaning staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 covers	nsubj
2	covers	cover	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 covers	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 napkin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 napkin	det
6	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covers	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaves	cc
8	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 covers	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaves	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 staff	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 staff	det
12	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 staff	compound
13	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	One	it				with a napkin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with napkin=Theme
2	leave	present	One not said here	napkin				for the cleaning staff	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for staff=Recipient

Option 2

One leaves it for others to notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	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 leaves	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 others	case
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 notice	mark
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leaves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	One	it				for others	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for other=Recipient
2	notice	to-infinitive	One not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One tells a supervisor and helps clean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 supervisor	det
4	supervisor	supervisor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 helps	cc
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
7	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helps	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	One	a supervisor	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent supervisor=Recipient
2	help	present	One not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	clean	infinitive	One not said here	supervisor	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

One blames the nearest pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 blames	nsubj
2	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pupil	amod
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blames	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	One	the nearest pupil					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=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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