Exam question 3 · Holidays of the region

Select the response consistent with established practice in respect of trick-or-treating.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, treat, respect · To what, where: response, trick

This is exam question 3 of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» 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	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 trick	case
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 treating	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 treating	cc
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 or	punct
15	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 trick	conj
16	.	.	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	treat	gerund	you not said here		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	respect			trick	nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Children enter strangers' homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enter	nsubj
2	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 homes	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 strangers	case
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	Children	strangers's homes					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Destination

Option 2

Children go alone to any house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Children			any house		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

Option 3

Children eat treats before adults check them, as is customary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 check	mark
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 check	nsubj
6	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 check	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 customary	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 customary	case
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 customary	cop
11	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Children	treats		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Patient
2	check	present	adults	treats = treat		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	present			as customary	tree rules

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

Children go with an adult to houses with lights on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 adult	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 houses	case
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lights	case
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	2 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Children			houses		with a adult; with lights	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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